Generating state-driven role-based landing pages

• US 10,083,247 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2012
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Brown, Michael S., Lipps, Chakriya D., Bali, Gurbinder S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Song, Daeho D
• Application Number:
  US13/459,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20130086479A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,339 Days
• Field of Search: 715741, 715743, 715745
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database

Abstract

A method, computer system, and computer program product for generating state-driven role-based landing pages. An enterprise application user in a secure enterprise application environment provides user-specified content relevant to the user'"'"'s role in the enterprise, and when the user invokes an enterprise application, initial screens displayed by the enterprise application are displayed as landing pages using the user-specified content. The method commences by validating an enterprise application user using a user profile and a security model where the security model serves to distinguish permitted or allowed enterprise application user activities from denied enterprise application activities. Once validated, then the method identifies a user'"'"'s role or roles, and further, identifies the user'"'"'s selection of subscriptions (e.g., subscriptions pertaining to content related to the user'"'"'s role). Given the user role and the user'"'"'s selection of subscriptions, systems keep track of user states to use when populating landing pages with subscription content.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for presenting landing pages to a user

within an enterprise software application having a security model that supports both user credentials and role credentials, the method comprising:

validating, using the security model, an enterprise software application user login event for a user of a plurality of users accessing the enterprise software application;

identifying, by a computer, at least one user role that is determined for the user based at least in part on the security model;

determining role-specific content based at least in part upon the at least one user role of the user;

determining user-specific content that is specific to the user based at least in part upon a link that is provided by the user and pointing to the user-specific content;

presenting the user-specific content in addition to the role-specific content in a landing page to the user;

accepting a user indication from within the landing page to invoke launching of an enterprise application task interface;

determining whether the launching of the enterprise task interface is allowed or denied at least by validating the launching of the enterprise application task interface with at least the security model and a role credential associated with the at least one user role

monitoring a user'"'"'s progression through tasks associated with the at least one user role and retrieving updated user-defined content; and

composing user-defined display containers using the updated user-defined content to include in the landing page.

2. The method of claim 1, further providing a user-defined content specification module, the module to add a user-specified HTML, content item to the landing page for later presentation of the user-specified HTML content item.

3. The method of claim 1, further providing operations to upload, test, approve, activate, and publish the landing page.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the presentation of the landing page comprises user-specified content published to a content repository and a URL that is external to a network domain of a host of the enterprise software application.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

validating the user by using at least the security model and a login credential of the user;

generating a data structure for storing user profiles of a plurality of users and storing the data structure in a non-transitory computer accessible storage medium;

identifying a role column storing a plurality of roles for a plurality of users for the enterprise software application in the data structure;

identifying an environment column storing a plurality of pieces of environment information for each role in the role column for the plurality of users for the enterprise software application in the data structure;

identifying a subscription column storing one or more subscription identifiers for the each role in the role column for the plurality of users for the enterprise software application in the data structure;

identifying a user-defined content column storing one or more uniform resource locators or one or more uniform resource identifiers for the each role in the role column for the plurality of users for the enterprise software application in the data structure;

identifying a state variable column storing one or more state variables for the each role in the role column for the plurality of users for the enterprise software application in the data structure;

after the enterprise software user login event is validated, retrieving a user profile uniquely identifying the user from a relational database by using at least the security model and the login credential of the user, the user profile associated with multiple roles in the role column of the data structure, a user identifier for the user, and the enterprise software application;

presenting an initial presentation of the landing page to the user;

receiving an invocation that invokes the launching of the enterprise application task interface from the user for the enterprise software application;

identifying at least one or more state values corresponding to the one or more state variables and the environment information from the environment column from the data structure based at least in part upon the user profile of the user;

identifying state-driven contents based at least in part upon the at least one or more state values for the user;

identifying the role-specific content based at least in part upon the multiple roles located in the role column of the data structure and associated with the user profile for the user;

presenting an updated presentation of the landing page including at least the state-driven contents and the role-specific content to the user based at least in part upon the environment information from the environment column from the data structure, the updated presentation of the landing page different from the initial presentation of the landing page;

identifying the one or more uniform resource locators or the one or more uniform resource identifiers for the multiple roles from the user-defined content column of the data structure for the user;

identifying the user-specific content that corresponds to the one or more uniform resource locators or the one or more uniform resource identifiers;

determining whether the user is allowed to access the user-specific content by validating an access to the user-specific content for the user;

retrieving the user-specific content when the access to the user-specific content is validated for the user; and

incorporating the user-specific content in the landing page presented to the user after the access to the user-specific content is validated for the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user indication is one of a click, a touch, or a keystroke.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the landing page comprises a presentation of a plurality of tabs within the landing page.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the landing page comprises results of running the enterprise software application via the enterprise application task interface.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one user role comprises at least one of a database administrator, an engineer, a sales engineer, an account manager, or a data entry role.

10. A computer system for presenting landing pages to a user within an enterprise software application having a security model that supports both user credentials and role credentials, comprising:

a computer processor to execute a set of program code instructions; and

a memory to hold the program code instructions, in which the program code instructions comprises program code to perform operations comprising;

validating, using the security model, an enterprise software application user login event for the user of a plurality of users accessing the enterprise software application;

identifying, by a computer, at least one user role that is determined for the user based at least in part on the security model;

determining role-specific content based at least in part upon the at least one user role of the user;

determining user-specific content that is specific to the user based at least in part upon a link that is provided by the user and pointing to the user-specific content;

presenting the user-specific content in addition to the role-specific content in a landing page to the user;

accepting a user indication from within the landing page to invoke launching of an enterprise application task interface;

determining whether the launching of the enterprise task interface is allowed or denied at least by validating the launching of the enterprise application task interface with at least the security model and a role credential associated with the at least one user role

monitoring a user'"'"'s progression through tasks associated with the at least one user role and retrieving updates user-defined content; and

composing user-defined display containers using the updated user-defined content to include in the landing page.

11. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise providing a user-defined content specification module, the user-defined content specification module to add a user-specified HTML, content item to the landing page for later presentation of the user-specified HTML content item.

12. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise providing additional operations to upload, test, approve, activate, and publish the landing page.

13. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the landing page comprises user-specified content published to a content repository.

14. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the landing page comprises a plurality of tabs within the landing page.

15. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the landing page comprises results of running the enterprise software application.

16. The computer system of claim 10, wherein the at least one user role includes one of a database administrator, an engineer, a sales engineer, an account manager, or a data entry role.

17. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor causes the processor to:

validate, using the security model, an enterprise software application user login event for a user of a plurality of users accessing the enterprise software application;

identify, by a computer, at least one user role that is determined for the user based at least in part on the security model;

determine role-specific content based at least in part upon the at least one user role of the user;

determine user-specific content that is specific to the user based at least in part upon a link that is provided by the user and pointing to the user-specific content;

present the user-specific content in addition to the role-specific content in a landing page to the user;

accept a user indication from within the landing page to invoke launching of an enterprise application task interface;

determine whether the launching of the enterprise task interface is allowed or denied at least by validating the launching of the enterprise application task interface with at least the security model and a role credential associated with the at least one user role

monitor a user'"'"'s progression through tasks associated with the at least one user role and retrieving updated user-defined content; and

composing user-defined display containers using the updated user-defined content to include in the landing page.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the sequence of instructions, when executed by the processor, further causes the processor to provide a user-defined content specification module, the module to add a user-specified HTML, content item to landing page for later presentation of the user-specified HTML, content item.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the landing page comprises user-specified content published to a content repository.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the at least one user role includes one of a database administrator, an engineer, a sales engineer, an account manager, or a data entry role.