Patents by Inventor Mustansir Bantwala

Mustansir Bantwala has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Policy based application provisioning in a collaborative computing environment
    Patent number: 8010456
    Abstract: The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for the policy based provisioning and management of a collaborative context. A policy based application provisioning system for use in a collaborative environment can include a policy having rules for limiting collaborative context creation and operation in the collaborative environment. A context provisioning process can be coupled to the policy and configured to create collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment limited by the rules in the policy. Finally, a context management process can be coupled to a data store of usage data for created ones of created collaborative contexts in the collaborative environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mustansir Bantwala, Miguel A. Estrada, Charles R. Hill, Sami M. Shalabi