Secured content syndication on a collaborative place

• US 20070220016A1
• Filed: 12/16/2005
• Published: 09/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Estrada, Antonio, Shalabi, Sami, Connor, Ian
• Application Number:
  US11/305,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20070220016A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities

Abstract

A method and computer program product for facilitating delivery of syndicated content to a user of a secured collaborative place in a collaborative computer environment, comprising receiving a request for syndicated content, and providing syndicated content based on at least one credential associated with the user, the syndicated content being associated with the secured collaborative place. Secured content syndication on a collaborative place may be provided as RSS feeds. A user can receive contents of the collaborative place filtered by the authenticated user credentials, thus allowing the user to only view content that the user has credentials to read in the collaborative place.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating delivery of syndicated content to a user of a secured collaborative place in a collaborative computer environment, the method comprising:

receiving a request for syndicated content; and

providing syndicated content based on at least one credential associated with the user, said syndicated content being associated with the secured collaborative place.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising authenticating the user prior to providing syndicated content.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least one credential includes the identity of the user.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least one credential is based on a role assigned to the user in the secured collaborative place.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least one credential includes only the identity of the user.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said providing syndicated content is also based on the content of the syndicated content to be delivered to the user.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said providing to the user syndicated content is based exclusively on the at least one credential.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the request is received from an aggregator running on a client device associated with the user.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein providing syndicated content includes selectively reading a database according to the at least one credential, said database having content associated with the secured collaborative place.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving a second request for delivery of content associated with said syndicated content provided to the user, said second request including a link to a location within the secured collaborative place.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the syndicated content is generated according to at least one of the following associated with the secured collaborative place:

new documents within a precedent time period;

collaborative places that the user has access to;

documents within a specific folder in the secured collaborative place;

to-do tasks within the secured collaborative place;

calendar of events within the secured collaborative place; and

emails received by the secured collaborative place.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein providing syndicated content includes providing the syndicated content to the user.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein providing syndicated content based on at least one credential associated with the user comprises, in response to the request, filtering syndicated content available on the secured collaborative place according to the at least one credential.

14. A computer program product comprising a computer program embodied on at least one computer readable medium, the computer program when executed being operative in performing a method for facilitating delivery of syndicated content to a user of a secured collaborative place in a collaborative computer environment, the method comprising:

receiving a request for syndicated content; and

providing syndicated content based on at least one credential associated with the user, said syndicated content being associated with the secured collaborative place.

15. The computer program product according to claim 14, the method further comprising authenticating the user prior to providing syndicated content.

16. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein said at least one credential includes the identity of the user.

17. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein said at least one credential is based on a role assigned to the user in the secured collaborative place.

18. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein said at least one credential includes only the identity of the user.

19. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein said providing syndicated content is also based on the content of the syndicated content to be delivered to the user.

20. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein said providing syndicated content is based exclusively on the at least one credential.

21. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein the request is received from an aggregator running on a client device associated with the user.

22. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein providing the syndicated content includes selectively reading a database according to the at least one credential, said database having content associated with the secured collaborative place.

23. The computer program product according to claim 14, the method further comprising receiving a second request for delivery of content associated with said syndicated content provided to the user, said second request including a link to a location within the secured collaborative place.

24. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein the syndicated content is generated according to at least one of the following associated with the secured collaborative place:

new documents within a precedent time period;

collaborative places that the user has access to;

documents within a specific folder in the secured collaborative place;

to-do tasks within the secured collaborative place;

calendar of events within the secured collaborative place; and

emails received by the secured collaborative place.

25. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein providing syndicated content includes providing the syndicated content to the user.

26. The computer program product according to claim 14, wherein providing syndicated content based on at least one credential associated with the user comprises, in response to the request, filtering syndicated content available on the secured collaborative place according to the at least one credential.