Patent ID: 7376739
Filing Date: 2008-05-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: registering one or more portlet actions corresponding to a plurality of portlets within a portal infrastructure, wherein a first set of one or more of the plurality of portlets are providers of a particular property and wherein a second set of one or more of the plurality of portlets are consumers of the particular property; assembling a portal page for presentation in a browser, wherein the portal page includes interfaces from the plurality of portlets; and including in the portal page a user interface control associated with the particular property, wherein the user interface control, when actuated in a particular manner of actuation by an end user, allows the end user to associate the particular property from one or more of the first set of portlets with at least one of the portlets from the second set of portlets such that an occurrence of a subsequent event associated with the particular property causes one or more portlet actions to be executed wherein the particular property is provided from the one or more associated first set of portlets to the one or more associated second set of portlets.