Access right setting device and manager terminal

• US 20020162005A1
• Filed: 12/26/2001
• Published: 10/31/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Mitoh, Takashi, Ishikawa, Akira, Ueda, Masaomi
• Application Number:
  US10/019,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20020162005A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/182
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices

Abstract

There is disclosed a system including an access right setting apparatus and manager terminal in which a user having an access to a resource of a network limited issues a request, and thereby an access right can easily be set, and the user who desires to access the resource describes set contents of the access right, such as the resource, time, and access content, in access request information 303, and transmits the information to an access right setting apparatus 100 for managing the access right in the system. The received access request information 303 is transferred to a manager of the resource by access request information transfer means 102, and the manager simply confirms a request content and makes judgment of approval, so that the access right setting apparatus 100 automatically sets the access right.

Claims

1. An access right setting apparatus which can set access right information for limiting utilization of a resource with respect to said resource whose utilization can be limited by setting an access right, characterized by:

access request information acceptance means for accepting access request information in which information for requiring the access right setting to said resource is described;

access request information judgment means for judging a content of said access request information accepted by said access request information acceptance means; and

access request information setting means for setting the content of said access request information judged by said access request information judgment means as said access right information.

5. The access right setting apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, characterized by user identifier registration means for issuing an identifier for uniquely specifying a user, necessary for performing user authentication to make possible connection for the user who cannot connect to said access right setting apparatus for accessing said resource, and registering the identifier as a part of said access request information.

6. The access right setting apparatus according to any one of claims 1, 2, and 5, characterized by access request information acceptance means which can accept said access request information designated by an identifier of classification of said resource, not by an identifier for uniquely specifying said resource with respect to designation of said resource as an object of the access right setting described in said access request information.

9. The access right setting apparatus according to any one of claims 1, 2, 5 and 6, characterized by an open resource information storage device which can store information open to an access originator of said resource among information of not an identifier for uniquely specifying said resource, but an identifier of classification of said resource with respect to designation of said resource as the object of the access right setting described in said access request information.

10. The access right setting apparatus according to any one of claims 1, 2, 5, 6 and 9, characterized by display information preparation means which can convert the content described in said access request information to a visually and easily understandable natural language in order to accurately notify said manager of said access request information.

11. The access right setting apparatus according to any one of claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 and 10, characterized by access request information authentication means for authenticating said access request information in order to confirm that said access request information is not prepared by an illicit action represented by falsification or pretense.

12. The access right setting apparatus according to any one of claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11, characterized by:

request information transfer means for a mobile terminal for transferring the content described in said access request information to a mobile terminal so that the content is grasped in a remote area; and

request information judgment means for the mobile terminal for performing the enable/disable judgment of said access request information from said mobile terminal.

13. The access right setting apparatus according to claim 12, characterized by object resource selection means for the mobile terminal for performing selection of the resource as said access object performed by the access object resource selection means by which said manager can select said resource as the object of the utilization from said plurality of resources from said mobile terminal, when said resource as the object of the access right setting described in said access request information is designated not by an identifier for uniquely specifying said resource, but by an identifier of classification of said resource with respect to designation of said resource as the object of the access right setting described in said access request information, and when there are a plurality of corresponding said resources.

14. The access right setting apparatus according to claim 12 or 13, characterized by request information change means for the mobile terminal for performing the change of the content described in said access request information from said mobile terminal.

2. An access right setting apparatus which can set access right information for limiting utilization of a resource with respect to said resource whose utilization can be limited by setting an access right, characterized by:

access request information acquirement asking means for asking for acquirement of access request information in which information for requiring the access right setting to said resource is described;

access request information acceptance means for acquiring said access request information designated by said access request information acquirement asking means;

access request information judgment means for judging enable/disable of a content of said access request information acquired by said access request information acceptance means; and

access request information setting means for setting the content of said access request information judged by said access request information judgment means as said access right information.

3. A manager terminal connected to an access right setting apparatus which can set access right information for limiting utilization of a resource with respect to said resource whose utilization can be limited by setting an access right via a network, characterized by:

access request information acceptance means for accepting access request information in which information for requiring the access right setting to said resource is described;

access request information judgment means for judging a content of said access request information accepted by said access request information acceptance means; and

access request information setting means for setting the content of said access request information judged by said access request information judgment means as said access right information, said manager terminal comprising;

access request information acquirement asking means for asking for acquirement of the access request information in which the information for requiring the access right setting to said resource is described;

access request information judgment means for receiving said access request information from said access right setting apparatus, and judging enable/disable of the content of said access request information; and

access request information automatic judgment means for automatically performing the enable/disable judgment.

7. The manager terminal according to claim 3 or 4, characterized by access object resource selection means by which a manager can select said resource as an object of utilization from a plurality of resources, when said resource as an object of the access right setting described in said access request information is designated not by an identifier for uniquely specifying said resource, but by an identifier of classification of said resource with respect to designation of said resource as the object of the access right setting described in said access request information, and when there are a plurality of corresponding said resources.

8. The manager terminal according to any one of claims 3, 4 and 7, characterized by access request information change means which can change the content described in said access request information received from said access right setting apparatus.

4. A manager terminal connected to an access right setting apparatus which can set access right information for limiting utilization of a resource with respect to said resource whose utilization can be limited by setting an access right via a network, characterized by:

access request information acquirement asking means for asking for acquirement of access request information in which information for requiring the access right setting to said resource is described;

access request information acceptance means for acquiring said access request information designated by said access request information acquirement asking means;

access request information judgment means for judging enable/disable of a content of said access request information acquired by said access request information acceptance means; and

access request information setting means for setting the content of said access request information judged by said access request information judgment means as said access right information, said manager terminal comprising;

access request information acquirement asking means for asking for acquirement of the access request information in which the information for requiring the access right setting to said resource is described;

access request information judgment means for receiving said access request information from said access right setting apparatus, and judging enable/disable of the content of said access request information; and

access request information automatic judgment means for automatically performing the enable/disable judgment.