NEED TO KNOW SEARCH RESULTS

• US 20160117396A1
• Filed: 10/22/2014
• Published: 04/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Travis, Amy D.
• Application Number:
  US14/520,597
• Publication Number:
  US 20160117396A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9035 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• 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 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for searching for assets in a resource. In response to determining that metadata associated with a received query for one or more assets in the resource fulfills a predetermined criterion, a response is provided to the query. The response includes one or more assets that are tagged in the resource as hidden assets.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A computer program product for searching for assets in a resource, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions being executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

in response to determining that metadata associated with a received query for one or more assets in the resource fulfills a predetermined criterion, providing a response to the query, wherein the response includes one or more assets that are tagged in the resource as hidden assets.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the assets represent one or more of:

files, online team spaces, online communities, online chat rooms, online meeting rooms, online forums, wiki pages, memberships in an online space, and metadata in a document.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the metadata represents one or more of:

user data, a job role for a user, an expertise of a user, other users to whom the user is connected, a certification of a user, an attendance at an online meeting by a user, a completion of a training course for a user and a signature on a permissions form by a user.

10. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the metadata is obtained from one or more of:

a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol directory, and social networking information.

11. The computer program product of claim 7, further comprising:

tagging one or more assets in the resource as hidden assets, wherein the tagging includes indicating attributes that make the tagged assets searchable.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein determining that metadata associated with a received query for one or more assets in the resource fulfills a predetermined criterion includes:

comparing the metadata with the attributes that make the tagged assets searchable.

13. A system for searching for assets in a resource, comprising:

a content repository storing one or more assets, wherein at least some of the assets are tagged as hidden assets;

a rules engine containing rules defining access rules for users to individual assets in the content repository; and

a search engine including a memory and a processor, the search engine being configured to;

receive a query for assets in the content repository, wherein the query includes metadata about the user submitting the query;

search the content repository based on the received query;

for each asset resulting from the search, determine, based on the received metadata and the access rules in the rules engine, whether the asset should be findable by the user; and

returning only those assets that should be findable to the user in response to the user query.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the assets represent one or more of:

files, online team spaces, online communities, online chat rooms, online meeting rooms, online forums, wiki pages, memberships in an online space, and metadata in a document.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the metadata represents one or more of:

user data, a job role for a user, an expertise of a user, other users to whom the user is connected, a certification of a user, an attendance at an online meeting by a user, a completion of a training course for a user and a signature on a permissions form by a user.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the metadata is obtained from one or more of:

a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol directory, and social networking information.