Method and system for handling window-based graphical events

• US 20020184406A1
• Filed: 04/04/2002
• Published: 12/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Aliffi, Salvo
• Application Number:
  US10/116,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20020184406A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/543 Local
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

Abstract

A method and system for controlling access to window based applications for a user logged on a workstation. The method comprises a first step of collecting user information including a list of events and their corresponding action; the collection can be done on the user workstation or from the system administrator workstation. The second step is for creating a user profile file with the user information on the workstation; this file can be sent from the system administrator workstation to the user workstation. The third step is for starting the user access application on the workstation wherein a user is logged on; for each event occurring in the process of a window based application started on the workstation, capturing it and checking it against said list of events and their corresponding action in the user profile file; proceeding with the process execution if the captured event is not stored in the user profile; the event may be the title of a window or a name of an application. The last step is for executing the action corresponding to the captured event if it has been identified in the user profile file. The action can be preventing the user from proceeding with the execution of the window based application.

Claims

1. A method for controlling user access to window based applications on a workstation, said method comprising the steps of:

collecting user information including a list of events and their corresponding action;

creating a user profile file with the user information on the workstation;

starting the user access application on the workstation wherein a user is logged on;

for each event occurring in the process of a window based application started on the workstation, capturing it and checking it against said list of events and their corresponding action in the user profile file;

proceeding with the process execution if the captured event is not stored in the user profile;

executing the action corresponding to the captured event if it has been identified in the user profile file.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the action corresponding to an event identified in the user profile file is to prevent the user from proceeding with the process execution.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2 wherein the collecting step is executed on a different workstation from the user workstation.

4. The method of anyone of claims 1 to 3 wherein the creating step is performed by sending the user profile file from a different workstation from the user workstation.

5. The method of anyone of claims 1 to 4 where the starting step is executed from a remote workstation connected via a network line to the user workstation.

6. The method of anyone of claims 1 to 5 wherein an event of the list of events is characterized by a window title characterizing a window based application.

7. The method of claim 6 where the window title is the whole title or the character string starting the title or a character string included in the title.

8. The method of anyone of claims 1 to 5 wherein an event of the list of events is characterized by any event belonging to a given window based application executing on the user workstation.

9. The method of anyone of claims 1 to 8 wherein the collecting step is performed interactively using a graphical user interface.

10. A computer program product comprising programming code instructions for executing the steps of the method according to any of the claims 1 to 9 when said program is executed on a computer.

11. A system comprising a workstation having an operating system enabling execution of window based applications, and executing a program product comprising programming code instructions executing the steps of the method according to any of the claims 1 to 9.