SECURE COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT

• US 20100100967A1
• Filed: 05/29/2009
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Anakam, Inc. (Equifax, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Anakam, Inc. (Equifax, Inc.)
• Inventors: White, Charles R., Satterwhite, Melvin D. JR., DOUGLAS, JAMES E.
• Application Number:
  US12/475,028
• Publication Number:
  US 20100100967A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

A secure collaborative environment to facilitate the sharing of confidential information between organizations, which can be used in conjunction with existing infrastructure.

Claims

1. A secure collaborative environment for an organization comprising a security rules engine in which access to secure information is granted or denied based on the application of an organization'"'"'s security policy.

2. The environment of claim 1 wherein the security policy includes authorization criteria for users, physical and logical access locations, and computing applications, as well as descriptive security details of the target information.

3. A method for selectively granting access to data in an application based on the comparison of item interests.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein comparison of item interests is controlled through the application of rules to allow, restrict or deny interaction between item interests.

5. The method of claim 3 where item interaction is controlled by the application of interests to items.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein information that defines a logical limitation of need to share is applied to an item interest.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein interests are applied to items.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein interests are applied to items.

9. The method of claim 3 where the logical union of a user'"'"'s interest is less that the interest of the requested data or communication transaction with another user.

10. The method of claim 3 wherein the application is a content management system.

11. The method of claim 10 that provides for reduced or restricted searching, browsing, and storing of data.

12. The method of claim 3 wherein items with interest for uses may be marked.

13. The method of claim 3 further comprising dirty word searches for submitted content items by interest.

14. The method of claim 3 further comprising streaming context based search of submitted content items.

15. The method of claim 3 wherein the application is a messaging system.

16. The method of claim 15 that allows for marking messages with interests for users.

17. The method of claim 15 that allows for dirty word searches for submitted messages between items by interest.

18. The method of claim 15 that allows for streaming context based search of submitted messages between items.

19. The method of claim 15 further comprising streaming context based search of messages.

20. The method of claim 3 wherein the application is a collaboration tool.

21. The method of claim 20 further comprising marking of session with interests for users.

22. The method of claim 20 further comprising dirty word searches for sessions between items of interest.

23. The method of claim 20 further comprising streaming context based search of content between items.

24. The method of claim 3 wherein the interests are applied to items where the items are produced through desktop productivity software.

25. The method of claim 24 wherein the items are Adobe.pdf content.

26. The method of claim 24 wherein the items are Adobe.pdf forms.

27. The method of claim 24 wherein the items are OpenOffice content.

28. The method of claim 24 wherein the items are Microsoft Office content.

29. The method of claim 24 wherein the items are messages between items.

30. The method of claim 24 wherein dirty word searches are applied to items.