Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090125622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SERVER STATUS AWARENESS - A method including analyzing one or more network interactions of a user. One or more servers associated with the one or more network interaction may be identified. A listing of at least a portion of the one or more servers may be rendered. | 05-14-2009 |
20090147933 | METHOD FOR EXPLOITATION OF LOCATION PROXIMITY TO DERIVE A LOCATION OF EMPLOYEES UTILIZING INSTANT MESSAGING - A method for exploitation of location proximity to derive a location of an employee in a corporation utilizing instant messaging or automatic telephone calls is provided. A search request for a location of an employee is received. A look up of coworkers of the employee in a corporate database is performed. A list of neighbors of the employee is extracted from the coworkers, and the list of neighbors of the employee is generated in accordance with the proximity of neighbors in the list of neighbors to a workspace of the employee. The list of neighbors is presented, in response to the search request. The list of neighbors is polled to locate the employee via instant messaging and/or automatic telephone calls. The location of the employee is received, in response to polling the list of neighbors. The neighbors are alerted that the employee has been located. | 06-11-2009 |
20090172113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLIENT-SIDE INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT - A method and computer program product for determining that a user of a client electronic device is in do-not-interrupt mode. A message directed to the user is routed to a client-based storage queue for subsequent delivery. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172114 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVER-SIDE INTERRUPTION MANAGEMENT - A method and computer program product for determining that a user of a client electronic device is in do-not-interrupt mode. A message directed to the user is routed to a server-based storage queue for subsequent delivery. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172127 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING NETWORK CONTENT BASED UPON SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system, apparatus, and method for recommending network content based upon shared preferences among members of a social network is provided. The method can be a computer-implemented method that includes determining a membership of a user in at least one social network in response to the user accessing a communications network. The method can further include identifying network content associated with other members of the at least one social network. Based upon the shared preferences, a list can be generated and transmitted to the user, the list comprising at least one network site for accessing the identified network content. | 07-02-2009 |
20090182822 | SOCIAL COLLABORATIVE SCORING FOR MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION ACCORDING TO AN APPLICATION INTERACTION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SENDER AND RECIPIENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to message prioritization and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for social collaborative prioritization of messages in a messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for social collaborative prioritization of messages can be provided for a messaging system. The method can include receiving a message from a sender as directed to a recipient, determining a value for a different social collaborative criterion based upon an application interaction relationship between the sender and the recipient, transforming the value into a priority for the message, and associating the priority with the message in the messaging system. | 07-16-2009 |
20090198645 | METHOD FOR EXPLOITATION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS TO DERIVE A LOCATION OF EMPLOYEES - A method is provided for exploitation of a social network to derive a location of an employee in a corporation utilizing instant messaging or automatic telephone calls. A search request is received for a location of an employee. A social network or acquaintance list of the employee is looked up in a corporate database. A list of contacts of the employee is extracted from the social network or acquaintance list in the corporate database. The list of contacts is presented, in response to the search request. The list of contacts is polled to locate the employee via instant messaging and/or automatic telephone calls. The location of the employee is received, in response to polling the list of contacts. The list of contacts is alerted that the employee has been located. | 08-06-2009 |
20090259718 | COLLABORATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY IN MEETING WORKFLOW - A computer program product provides collaborative accountability in meeting workflows by including appropriate notification and endorsement of workflow events by an accountability network which includes supervisors in an organizational hierarchy. Workflow events may include invitations to attend meetings, delegations of those invitations, meeting attendance, and action items generated within meetings. | 10-15-2009 |
20090282107 | Adaptive Electronic Introductions - A method for providing electronic introductions includes providing, with an electronic communication, an electronic introduction that gives additional information regarding a party to the electronic communication that is in addition to the electronic identification of that party. A system for providing an electronic introduction may include a computer configured to search at least one database for information about a party being introduced and compile an electronic introduction for the party incorporating the information; and an electronic communication function configured to provide access to the electronic introduction to a recipient of an electronic communication sent by the party using the electronic communication function. | 11-12-2009 |
20090313074 | ENHANCED VIEWING/UPDATING OF CALENDAR ENTRIES BASED UPON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN A VIEWER AND A CALENDAR OWNER AND A RELATIVE IMPORTANCE VALUE OF THE CALENDAR ENTRIES - A calendar of a calendar owner can be identified. The calendar can include at least one calendar entry. Each calendar entry can be associated with access restrictions specific to the entry and/or a type associated with the entry. An attempt from a non-owner to access the calendar of the owner can be received. A relationship between the non-owner and the owner can be determined, which is used to grant access privileges. A non-owner can be permitted to access/change the owner's calendar entries based upon comparisons of the granted privileges and the access restrictions. For example, when certain approved people view busy-time scheduled in a user's calendar, any non-important booked time can be shown as time availably for scheduling events with the user. When an approved person schedules a previously book time slot, and an owner agrees to this change, then existing appointments are automatically rescheduled/adjusted to avoid conflicts. | 12-17-2009 |
20100017245 | RESERVATION MANAGEMENT - A method, information processing system, and computer program product managing reservations of items. A request to reserve an item is received from a first user. The request includes a specification of at least one of a date and a time for a first reservation of the item. A determination is made that a second user holds a prior reservation for the item that conflicts with the first reservation. A determination is made that the second user is no longer requires the prior reservation. The prior reservation is released in response to determining that the second user no longer requires the prior reservation. The first reservation as specified by the request is allowed in response to the releasing and in response to the receiving from the first user the request. | 01-21-2010 |
20100082667 | UTILIZING A SOCIAL NETWORK FOR LOCATING A TARGET INDIVIDUAL BASED UPON A PROXIMITY SEARCH - A method of utilizing a social network for locating a target individual based upon a proximity search can be provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of utilizing a social network for locating a target individual based upon proximity search can include identifying a geographic location for a mobile computing device of a target individual, retrieving a list of contacts from a social network associated with the target individual, generating a subset of the contacts according to a proximity of available ones of the contacts to the identified geographic location for the mobile computing device, and prompting at least one of the contacts in the subset to alert the target individual. | 04-01-2010 |
20100088299 | AUTONOMIC SUMMARIZATION OF CONTENT - Autonomic summarization of content may include receiving information regarding an action, generating metadata content related to the action, storing the metadata content, and performing a search of the stored metadata content to find information on the performed action. Also included is an apparatus for autonomic summarization of content including a summarization engine, the summarization configured to autonomically generate meta data related to an activity, a repository, the repository configured to store the generated meta data, and a processor, the processor configured to receive a query and use the query to search for meta data associated with the activity. | 04-08-2010 |
20100153500 | COLLABORATIVE EMAIL FILTERING - A first filter input is received from a first recipient of an email including a plurality of recipients. The first filter input is associated with the email. Further, the first filter input is propagated to at least another of the plurality of recipients of the email. | 06-17-2010 |
20100169273 | MANAGING DATA ACROSS A PLURALITY OF DATA STORAGE DEVICES BASED UPON COLLABORATION RELEVANCE - A computer-implemented method of managing data storage according to collaborative activity can include determining collaborative activity for each of a plurality of data items associated with a first user and stored within a first data storage device. The method can include calculating a measure of relevancy for each of the plurality of data items according to the collaborative activity and comparing the measure of relevancy of each of the plurality of data items to at least one relevancy threshold. Different ones of the plurality of data items can be selectively migrated from the first data storage device to a second data storage device according to the comparison of the measure of relevancy of each of the plurality of data items. | 07-01-2010 |
20100169820 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHANGING SYSTEM MODES - A method, computer program product, and computing system for providing a graphical user interface via an operating system. The graphical user interface may be configured to permit a user to define a plurality of modes, one of the modes being a current mode. The method may also include permitting a user to select an updated mode of the plurality of modes, the updated mode being different from the current mode. The computer-implemented method may further include transmitting a message indicating that the updated mode has been selected to a configuration interface associated with at least one application running on the operating system. Numerous other variations and embodiments are also included within the scope of the present disclosure. | 07-01-2010 |
20100275021 | DEFINING ACCESS RIGHTS TO CONTENT - A portion of text associated with a message intended for a group of recipients is encrypted at a computing device. The portion of text may include less than an entirety of the message. Access to the portion of text may be restricted for a first subset of the group of recipients and allowed for a second subset of the group of recipients. | 10-28-2010 |
20110010381 | IDENTIFYING CONTACTS - The present disclosure may include receiving a query from a computing device at a server having a database, the query identifying a desired attribute. The present disclosure may also include searching the database to identify contact information for at least one individual having the attribute corresponding to the query. The attribute may include at least one of skills, expertise, product, organization, geography and language The contact information may be transmitted to the computing device via an electronic message identifying the contact information. | 01-13-2011 |
20110047222 | RETROSPECTIVE CHANGING OF PREVIOUSLY SENT MESSAGES - Functionality can be implemented in email applications to allow sent messages to be updated, even if the sent messages have been read. When a request to update a sent message is received, a message update unit can update information in the message according to the notification. The message update unit can notify a recipient that the message was updated, and can indicate changed information in the sent message. The message update unit can also determine if the sent message has been forwarded, and forward the update notification to other recipients. | 02-24-2011 |
20110072362 | Meeting Agenda Management - A method for scheduling a meeting based on data collected from previous meetings includes: creating an agenda for a meeting with a computerized meeting management system, the agenda having at least one recurring agenda item; presenting a suggested amount of time for the at least one recurring agenda item to a user through the computerized meeting management system, the suggested amount of time being based on data regarding the recurring agenda item from at least one previous meeting. | 03-24-2011 |