Managing the product of temporary groups in a community

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8954481
APP PUB NO 20130304772A1
SERIAL NO

13467200

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A method, system, and computer program product for managing the products of a sub-community operating within a community are provided in the illustrative embodiments. The sub-community is defined in an application executing on a data processing system using a processor and a memory. The community comprises a set of members working for a common objective. The sub-community comprises a subset of the set of members working for a part of the common objective. The defining of the sub-community also configures a closing condition for the sub-community. A plurality of members is added to the sub-community. The sub-community is created.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fay, Peter Westford, US 11 88
Feigenbaum, Barry Alan Austin, US 21 547
Woodward, Elizabeth Vera Austin, US 10 64
Yan, Shunguo Austin, US 107 1175

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