Patent 7,139,761 (the '761 patent) has been asserted by Leader Technologies, Inc. against Facebook, Inc. in a federal district court action alleging willful infringement. The '761 patent could pose a threat to numerous social network sites. This challenge is to determine whether the claims of the '761 patent are valid.
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including how many rooms it has, for example. Room type controls the appearance and content of rooms. A form manages the display of data notes. A form can contain fields for containing data and employ scripts to process and compute data. A page is the basic vehicle for content. Content is created using an or importing content from an external source. A member is also a data note, and each place contains its own member directory. A place is created and managed from a client browser in on-line mode and in offline mode with respect to a replicated copy of the space. Room security is independently managed, and security and aesthetics characteristics of subrooms selectively inherited. Room navigation and workflow processing is provided, as are forms creation and uploading from browser to server. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | 6732148 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | Assignee: IBM Corp. |
| Relevant Pages, Columns, or Lines | (1) col 5, ln 56 to col 6, ln |
| URL | http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/... |
| Publication Date | December 28, 1999 |
| Additional Information | Date listed is filing date |
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Excerpt
(1) col 5, ln 56 to col 6, ln 9 - In accordance with an aspect of the invention there is provided a collaboration space data model in which a place includes a plurality of rooms; a place type is provided for controlling the creation of a place; a room type is provided controlling the appearance of content of the room; the room includes a plurality of pages, and for each said room there is provided a members object for identifying members authorized to access said room; and folders are provided for organizing the pages.
In accordance with an aspect of the invention, there is provided a computer program product configured to be operable to allow teams and workers within or between companies to easily set up a common electronic workplace to communicate, share and organize information and documents around any task, project, or initiative.
In accordance with a further aspect of the invention, a personal web server, a mini-server, is downloaded to a browser client and there presents to the user a fully functional web site, including, with respect to the user's specific application environments, data, logic, and security.
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Managing data with plural user environments
A computer-implemented method of managing data, comprising computer-executable acts of: generating a plurality of user environments in a web-based system; ordering two or more of the plurality of user environments according to different arrangements of the user environments; providing a plurality of applications for generating and processing data in the user environments, data of a user environment is dynamically associated with the user environment in metadata that corresponds to the data; creating an association of the data with a second user environment when the data is accessed from the second user environment; dynamically storing the association of the data and the second user environment in the metadata; storing in a storage component ordering information related to the ordering of the two or more of the plurality of user environments; and traversing the different arrangements of the user environments with one or more of the applications based on the ordering information to locate the data associated with the user environments.
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Managing data via computer-executable acts
A computer-implemented method of managing data, comprising computer-executable acts of: creating data within a user environment of a web-based computing platform via user interaction with the user environment by a user using an application, the data in the form of at least files and documents; dynamically associating metadata with the data, the data and metadata stored on a storage component of the web-based computing platform, the metadata includes information related to the user, the data, the application, and the user environment; tracking movement of the user from the user environment of the web-based computing platform to a second user environment of the web-based computing platform; and dynamically updating the stored metadata with an association of the data, the application, and the second user environment wherein the user employs at least one of the application and the data from the second environment.
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Server-based data management
A computer-implemented system that facilitates management of data, comprising: computer-implemented means for creating data by interaction of a user within a user workspace of a server using an application; computer-implemented means for associating metadata with the data, the metadata stored in association with the data on storage means of the server, the metadata includes information related to a user of the user workspace, to the data, to the application and to the user workspace; computer-implemented means for tracking movement of the user from the user workspace to a second user workspace of the server; and computer-implemented means for dynamically associating the data and the application with the second user workspace in the metadata such that the user can employ the application and data from the second user workspace.
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Network-based system for facilitating data management
A computer-implemented network-based system that facilitates management of data, comprising: a computer-implemented context component of the network-based system for capturing context information associated with user-defined data created by user interaction of a user in a first context of the network-based system, the context component dynamically storing the context information in metadata associated with the user-defined data, the user-defined data and metadata stored on a storage component of the network-based system; and a computer-implemented tracking component of the network-based system for tracking a change of the user from the first context to a second context of the network-based system and dynamically updating the stored metadata based on the change, wherein the user accesses the data from the second context.
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Computer storage of data management
A computer-readable medium for storing computer-executable instructions for a method of managing data, the method comprising: creating data related to user interaction of a user within a user workspace of a web-based computing platform using an application; dynamically associating metadata with the data, the data and metadata stored on the web-based computing platform, the metadata includes information related to the user of the user workspace, to the data, to the application and to the user workspace; tracking movement of the user from the user workspace to a second user workspace of the web-based computing platform; dynamically associating the data and the application with the second user workspace in the metadata such that the user employs the application and data from the second user workspace; and indexing the data created in the user workspace such that a plurality of different users can access the data via the metadata from a corresponding plurality of different user workspaces.
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