Content filtering for personal productivity applications

摘要

A set of context profiles containing profile content rules for filtering which content within a set of personal productivity applications (such as e-mail, chat, calendar, and contacts applications) is accessible by a user. Content rules support filtering content by, for example, content originator, and/or subject matter. The context profiles are centrally maintained for control of integrated, non-integrated, and/or independently administered personal productivity applications.

主权项

1. A method for filtering application content, the method comprising:
defining a plurality of context profiles for a single user; determining a set of content rules that control accessibility of content of personal productivity applications according to the plurality of context profiles; selecting a first context profile from the plurality of context profiles as an operative profile; associating the operative profile with a first sub-set of content rules of the set of content rules; applying the first sub-set of content rules to a first set of content of a first personal productivity application to present a first sub-set of content to the single user according to the operative profile; applying the first sub-set of content rules to a second set of content of a second personal productivity application to present a second sub-set of content to the single user according to the operative profile; displaying, to the single user and from the first personal productivity application, only data determined to be accessible under the first sub-set of content rules; and displaying, to the single user and from the second personal productivity application, only data determined to be accessible under the first sub-set of content rules.