Patent Document ID: 7533142
Application ID: 10527146

Base Claim:
1. A method of collaboration between a plurality of associated portlets in a portal server comprising: defining a common Portlet Application Session Object, the Portlet Application Session Object comprising a data store session object and configured to allow each portlet in a portlet application to share session information; associating each portlet in a portlet application with a portlet descriptor describing a dynamic context name, each portlet configured to access the common Portlet Application Session Object, the dynamic context name referencing a dynamic context configured to be changed during runtime; and forming collaboration groups of portlets having corresponding dynamic context names, a collaboration group being a subgroup of the group of portlets in the portlet application, the portlets in each collaboration group sharing dynamic context changes through the Portlet Application Session Object.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 wherein each portlet in a portlet application comprises an independent portlet session, all independent portlet sessions for a portlet application sharing a Portlet Application Session Object.