System and Methods for Providing Relevant Assets in Collaboration Mediums
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBrian D. Goodman, Frank L. Jania, Darren M. Shaw
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Abstract
A method for providing assets in a collaboration medium includes receiving information from an entity; analyzing the information to identify metadata; searching a system to locate assets relevant to the identified metadata; filtering the assets located on the system according to at least one of a predetermined user profile or a environment profile; sending pointers to the filtered assets on the entity's system to a second entity's system; and displaying pointers to the filtered assets in the collaboration medium.
Claims20
A method for providing assets in a collaboration medium, comprising:
- receiving information from an entity;
- analyzing the information to identify metadata;
- searching a system to locate assets relevant to the identified metadata;
- filtering the assets located on the entity's system according to at least one of a predetermined user profile or an environment profile;
- sending pointers to the filtered assets on the entity's system to a second entity's system;
- and
- displaying pointers to the filtered assets in the collaboration medium.
A method for providing assets in a collaboration medium, comprising:
- receiving information from a first entity;
- analyzing the information to identify metadata;
- searching the first entity's local system for assets relevant to the identified metadata;
- filtering the assets located on the first entity's local system according to at least one of a predetermined user profile or an environment profile;
- sending pointers to the filtered assets on the first entity's local system to a second entity's local system;
- searching the second entity's local system for assets relevant to the filtered assets on the first entity's local system;
- filtering the assets located on the second entity's local system according to at least one of a predetermined user profile or a environment profile;
- and
- displaying pointers to the filtered assets from each entity's local system in the collaboration medium.
A system, comprising:
- a server comprising a collaboration medium;
- an agent comprising at least one client comprising:
- a message pre-processor for analyzing metadata in information entered into the collaboration medium;
- a search engine for searching a local system for assets relevant to the metadata;
- or
- a message post-processor for filtering relevant assets according to at least one of a predetermined user profile or an environment profile.
A computer program product, comprising:
- a computer useable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:
- receive information from an entity;
- analyze the information to identify metadata;
- search a system to locate assets relevant to identified metadata;
- filter the assets located on the system according to at least one of a predetermined user profile or a environment profile;
- send pointers to the filtered assets on the entity's system to a second entity's system;
- and
- display pointers to the filtered assets in the collaboration medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.