Collaborative bookmarking
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorChristopher W. Kirby
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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.
Claims3
A collaborative bookmarking system that is accessible by a first public user through a public internet and also accessible by a first corporate user through a corporate intranet, the system comprising:
- a collaborative bookmarking database;
- a first tag filter module;
- a first HTTP server machine;
- and
- a second HTTP server machine;
- wherein:
- the collaborative marking database receives and maintains collaborative bookmarking data on an ongoing basis;
- the collaborative bookmarking data includes a plurality of tags and respectively associated sets of URL address(es), with the tags and respectively associated sets of URL addresses being supplied by users of the collaborative bookmarking system;
- the first HTTP server machine:
- (i) receives a first tag request from the public user through the public internet,
- (ii) requests a first associated set of URL address(es), corresponding to the first tag request, from the collaborative bookmarking database,
- (iii) receives a first filtered associated set of URL address(es) from the first tag filter, and
- (iv) returns the first filtered associated set of URL address(es) to the public user through the public internet;
- the second HTTP server machine:
- (i) receives a second tag request from the corporate user through the corporate intranet,
- (ii) requests a second associated set of URL address(es), corresponding to the second tag request, from the collaborative bookmarking database,
- (iii) receives the second associated set of URL address(es) from the collaborative bookmarking database, and
- (iv) returns the second associated set of URL address(es) to the corporate user through the corporate intranet;
- and
- the first tag filter module:
- (i) receives a first associated set of URL address(es) from the collaborative bookmarking database,
- (ii) filters the first associated set of URL address(es) to yield a first filtered set of URL address(es) by removing URL address(es) corresponding to URL-denoted data portions that are not freely publically accessible, and
- (iii) sends the first filtered set of URL address(es) to the first HTTP server machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.