METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSIGNING AD-HOC GROUPS

• US 20080065751A1
• Filed: 09/08/2006
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hampson, Kenneth B.
• Application Number:
  US11/530,173
• Publication Number:
  US 20080065751A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A computer program product provides an ad-hoc group to an application, through instructions for: retrieving at least one group comprising listings of individuals; using at least one operand, at least one of selecting and de-selecting individuals from the at least one group to provide the ad-hoc group.

Claims

1. A computer program product stored on machine readable media for executing machine readable instructions to provide an ad-hoc group to an application, the instructions for:

retrieving at least one group comprising listings of individuals; and

using at least one operand, at least one of selecting and de-selecting individuals from the at least one group to provide the ad-hoc group.

2. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the application comprises one of an email client, an access control application and a messaging application.

3. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the operand comprises at least one of a plus, a minus, a less than, a greater than, a NOT, an OR and an AND.

4. The computer program product as in claim 1, wherein the ad-hoc group comprises at least one of a complement of two or more groups, an intersection of two or more groups and a union of two or more groups.

5. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for providing a selection facility.

6. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for providing a query facility.

7. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for providing an operand selection facility.

8. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for providing a graphic depiction facility.

9. The computer program product as in claim 1, further comprising instructions for receiving input from a user via a command line.

10. The computer program product as in claim 9, wherein the ad-hoc group is updated upon at least one of transmission, saving, after a predetermined period of time and live-time.

11. A computer program product stored on machine readable media for executing machine readable instructions to provide an ad-hoc group to one of an email client, an access control application and a messaging application, the instructions comprising instructions for:

providing a selection facility, a query facility, an operand selection facility and a graphic depiction facility;

retrieving at least one group comprising listings of individuals;

using at least one operand comprising at least one of a plus, a minus, a less than, a greater than, a NOT, an OR and an AND, at least one of selecting and de-selecting individuals from the at least one group to provide the ad-hoc group and updating the ad-hoc group upon at least one of transmission, saving, after a predetermined period of time and live-time;

wherein the ad-hoc group comprises at least one of a complement of two or more groups, an intersection of two or more groups and a union of two or more groups.