COLLABORATIVE BOOKMARKING

• US 20100153364A1
• Filed: 12/15/2008
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kirby, Christopher W.
• Granted Patent: US 8,275,789 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9562 Bookmark management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database

Abstract

A method and system for filtering tags in a collaborative bookmarking system wherein the collaborative bookmarking system includes confidential and/or proprietary information, whereby tag filters prevent access to certain confidential and/or proprietary information by permitting a user access to the collaborative bookmarking system, authenticating the user, permitting the user to submit a search request to the collaborative bookmarking system, whereby the search request retrieves search result tags, and filtering the search result tags to provide only authorized tags to the user.

Claims

1. A method of filtering tags in a collaborative bookmarking system wherein the collaborative bookmarking system includes confidential and/or proprietary information comprising:

permitting a user access to the collaborative bookmarking system;

authenticating the user;

permitting the user to submit a search request to the collaborative bookmarking system, whereby the search request retrieves search result tags; and

filtering the search result tags to provide only authorized tags to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein authenticating the user comprises determining the amount of access to the content in the bookmarking system provided to the user.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the tags in the bookmarking system comprise

uniform resource locators (URLs) and URL elements;

wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of URLs and URL elements;

wherein the filtering step comprises comparing the search result tags with the predefined list of URLs and URL elements and preventing access to the search result tags that match the predefined list of URLs and URL elements.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of tags and tag expressions;

wherein the filtering step comprises comparing the search result tags with the predefined list of tags and tag expressions and preventing access to the search result tags that match the predefined list of tags and tag expressions.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of tags and tag expressions that denote restricted URLs;

wherein the filtering step comprises comparing the search result tags with the predefined list of tags and tag expressions that denote restricted URLs and preventing access to the search result tags that match the predefined list of tags and tag expressions that denote restricted URLs.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of site contributors and contributor expressions, wherein the contributors contribute tags that are restricted;

wherein the filtering step comprises comparing the contributors of the search result tags with the predefined list of contributors and contributor expressions and preventing access to the search result tags that have contributors that match the predefined list of contributors and contributor expressions.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein users access the collaborative bookmarking system by a public internet, private intranet or partner intranet.

8. A system for collaborating tags in a bookmarking system operated by a public or private entity wherein the bookmarking system comprises a plurality of tags applied to content items by a plurality of users, wherein the bookmarking system restricts certain tags from certain users, comprising:

one or more user interfaces;

a collaborative bookmarking database linked to the one or more users interfaces, wherein users utilize the one or more user interfaces to search the collaborative bookmarking database to obtain search result tags;

one or more servers linked to the collaborative bookmarking database;

one or more networks linked to the servers and to the user interfaces;

one or more authentication servers linked to the one or more servers;

one or more tag filters linked to the one or more filters;

wherein the one or more tag filters filter the search result tags to provide only authorized tags to the user.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the one or more servers comprise hyper-text transfer protocol (HTTP) servers.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein the one or more networks comprise a public internet, a private intranet and/or a partner intranet.

11. The system of claim 8 wherein the one or more authentication servers determine the amount of access to the content in the bookmarking system provided to the user.

12. The system of claim 8 wherein the tags in the bookmarking system comprise uniform resource locators (URLs) and URL elements, wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of URLs and URL elements, wherein each tag filter compares the search result tags with the predefined list of URLs and URL elements and prevents access to the search result tags that match the predefined list of URLs and URL elements.

13. The system of claim 8 wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of tags and tag expressions, wherein each tag filter compares the search result tags with the predefined list of tags and tag expressions and prevents access to the search result tags that match the predefined list of tags and tag expressions.

14. The system claim 8 wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of tags and tag expressions that denote restricted URLs, wherein each tag filter compares the search result tags with the predefined list of tags and tag expressions that denote restricted URLs and prevents access to the search result tags that match the predefined list of tags and tag expressions that denote restricted URLs.

15. The system of claim 8 wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of site contributors and contributor expressions, wherein the contributors contribute tags that are restricted, wherein each tag filter compares the contributors of the search result tags with the predefined list of contributors and contributor expressions and prevents access to the search result tags that have contributors that match the predefined list of contributors and contributor expressions.

16. A computer program product encoded in a computer readable medium having program code for instructing a system to filter tags in a collaborative bookmarking system wherein the collaborative bookmarking system includes confidential and/or proprietary information, the program code configured to cause the computer to perform the method comprising:

permitting a user access to the collaborative bookmarking system;

authenticating the user;

permitting the user to submit a search request to the collaborative bookmarking system, whereby the search request retrieves search result tags; and

filtering the search result tags to provide only authorized tags to the user.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein the tags in the bookmarking system comprise:

uniform resource locators (URLs) and URL elements;

wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of URLs and URL elements;

wherein the filtering step comprises comparing the search result tags with the predefined list of URLs and URL elements; and

preventing access to the search result tags that match the predefined list of URLs and URL elements.

18. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of tags and tag expressions;

wherein the filtering step comprises comparing the search result tags with the predefined list of tags and tag expressions and preventing access to the search result tags that match the predefined list of tags and tag expressions.

19. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of tags and tag expressions that denote restricted URLs;

wherein the filtering step comprises comparing the search result tags with the predefined list of tags and tag expressions that denote restricted URLs and preventing access to the search result tags that match the predefined list of tags and tag expressions that denote restricted URLs.

20. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein each tag filter comprises a predefined list of site contributors and contributor expressions, wherein the contributors contribute tags that are restricted;

wherein the filtering step comprises comparing the contributors of the search result tags with the predefined list of contributors and contributor expressions and preventing access to the search result tags that have contributors that match the predefined list of contributors and contributor expressions.