LionShare technology provides tools for the exchange of academic, personal and work-related materials on an officially sanctioned and secure P2P network of participating groups and institutions.

Secure Share

• Provides the same personal file sharing capabilities of Kazaa and Gnutella but requires user authentication before sharing.
• Ability to create access control lists to restrict sharing to a defined group of users to protect your copyrights.
• Easily add files to be shared by individually selecting each file or selecting a group of files within a directory.
• Persistently share files by pushing them to a remote peer server.
• Real World Example 1: Secure Peer 2 Peer File Sharing.
• Real World Example 2: Access Control.

Search

• Multi-institutional P2P search capability with participating members.
• Federated educational repository search.
• Local file search of files managed by LionShare.
• Multiple search results view. Ability to view results as a list or as a thumbnail preview.
• Ability to view detailed metadata from each search result.
• Detailed profile information of the user sharing the file.

Organize

• Group files from anywhere on your file system into virtual folders.
• Add metadata to a individual file or groups of files.
• Create slideshows from images managed by LionShare, support for .png, .gif, and .jpg images.
• Manage and group files on a remote peer server as though they were local.
• Launch external applications to examine files managed by LionShare.
• Multiple views of files with support for list, icon, and image view.
• Real World Example 1: Tools to Help Organize and use Files.

Talk (Collaborate)

• Secure User to User Instant Messenging.
• Multiuser Group Chat.
• Start chat directly from P2P search result.
• Collaborate across institutions with federated network support.
• Real World Example 1: Tools for Collaboration.