Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are presented regarding alert processing. An alert may be received or generated with respect to one or more portals, such as social-networking websites, enterprise servers, and other data sources. Requests associated with one or more portals may be received at an MTproxy. The request may come from an MTclient and may include state information about alerts. At the MTproxy, a user monitor thread is generated in response to the request. The user monitor thread may be associated with a user of the MTproxy. One or more alertlets associated with the user monitor thread may be generated. Each alertlet may be associated with a feature, or specific type of information, and a portal. At the alertlet, information concerning the portal may be determined. A mashup may be generated and sent based on the information.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided that access and present information associated with dynamic communities in an efficient and highly scalable manner. Dynamic communities are formed based on a trigger, which may be a command, a request for information, or an event notification. An apparatus may receive notification of the trigger and form a dynamic community from one or more data sources, such as social-networking websites and enterprise data sources. Sub-triggers may be generated based on the trigger and the dynamic community. The sub-triggers may be sent from the apparatus. A result may then be generated based on received responses to the sub-triggers.

Abstract: A method and system for creating integrated systems from diverse computer-based elements is provided. The integration system provides a service-oriented methodology based on a notion of services as operational abstractions to required middleware that encapsulate an element's built-in capabilities, establish a communication context with other services and client applications, and translate data to and from the native interfaces and protocols of the elements. A service is based on a service specification which defines the service's operations and the format for sending service requests to the service. The integration system is based on the existence of a distributed set of individually customized run-time environments running as service agents, which support the exchange of service specifications and the processing of service requests sent from other services and from client applications.