Method and apparatus for managing publication and sharing of data
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Abstract
A first user is designated as an eligible shared data contributor. An authorized service component of the eligible shared data contributor is designated as a shared data publishing component. A data publication is defined. The eligible shared data contributor tags data managed by said publishing component for inclusion with the data publication. A second user is designated as an eligible shared data subscriber. The second user is associated as a subscriber of the data publication. The first user contributes to the data managed by the publishing component, and the second user is allowed access to the data managed by the publishing component based on the second user'"'"'s subscription to the data publication. The first and second users may or may not be of the same licensee organization, thereby allowing intra as well as extra-organizational sharing of data.
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21. A data sharing method comprising:
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facilitating authorization of members of a plurality of data sharing entities to access a plurality of methods of a service component by a first user; and
conditionally permitting a second user to invoke a first of said methods in accordance with whether said second user as a member of one of said plurality of data sharing entities is authorized to invoke said first method. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. An apparatus comprising:
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storage medium having stored therein a plurality of programming instructions designed to facilitate authorization of members of a plurality of data sharing entities to access a plurality of methods of a service component by a first user, and conditionally permit a second user to invoke a first of said methods in accordance with whether said second user as a member of one of said plurality of data sharing entities is authorized to invoke said first method;
one or more processors coupled to said storage medium to execute said programming instructions. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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