Patent ID: 7870493
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method in a collaboration system with a processor and a memory for sharing data, the method comprising: detecting an establishment of a conversation between a plurality of participants, each of the plurality of participants being at a client system; after detecting the establishment of the conversation, creating a shared clipboard for the conversation, the shared clipboard being operable to contain an item of data; and providing each of the plurality of participants in the conversation access to the contents of the shared clipboard so that each of the plurality of participants can add items of data to the shared clipboard and copy items of data from the shared clipboard; and during the established conversation, enforcing by the processor a permission of an item of data when a participant who has access rights to the item of data requests to add the item of data to the shared clipboard, the permission restricting the sharing of the item of data, by determining whether at least one of the plurality of participants other than the participant requesting to add the item of data does not have access rights to the item of data based on the permission of the item of data; and when it is determined that at least one of the plurality of participants does not have access rights to the item of data, preventing the item of data from being added to the shared clipboard so that all the participants have access rights to each item of data that is added to the clipboard; providing presence information of the shared clipboard by storing indications of interactions of the participants with the shared clipboard; and presenting to a participant the stored indications of interactions of the other participants with the shared clipboard; and temporarily archiving the shared clipboard at a client system of a participant when the participant leaves the conversation and when the temporary archiving of the shared clipboard is permitted so that the participant can access the temporarily archived shared clipboard after leaving the conversation.