Abstract: Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including how many rooms it has, for example. Room type controls the appearance and content of rooms. A form manages the display of data notes. A form can contain fields for containing data and employ scripts to process and compute data. A page is the basic vehicle for content. Content is created using an or importing content from an external source. A member is also a data note, and each place contains its own member directory. A place is created and managed from a client browser in on-line mode and in offline mode with respect to a replicated copy of the space. Room security is independently managed, and security and aesthetics characteristics of subrooms selectively inherited.

Abstract: A method and system for distributing by a server data processing system computing tasks for execution amongst a plurality of client data processing systems having different resource characteristics. Each task includes one or more subtasks, and each subtask has one or more resource requirements. Each of the clients requests from the server a subtask upon occurrence of a first event, for example, an idle machine. The server in response to a request from a client, selects a subtask for execution by the client as a function of the resource requirements of the subtask and the particular resource characteristics of the client.