eRoom user aging tool and method

• US 20040162789A1
• Filed: 02/14/2003
• Published: 08/19/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Keller, Kevin Donald, Huscher, Anthony Alan, Whitlow, Troy Charles
• Application Number:
  US10/368,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20040162789A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/75
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

In one embodiment of the invention, a method of user aging in an eRoom server, includes: sending a request for eRoom user accounts in a Server Member List (SML); returning user account information in response to the request; checking an employment status of each user associated with a returned user account information; and processing a user account associated with a user based upon the employment status of the user. In another embodiment of the invention, an apparatus for user aging in an eRoom server, includes: an automated user aging module configured to send a request for eRoom user accounts in a Server Member List (SML) and receive user account information in response to the request; the automated user aging module further configured to check an employment status of each user associated with a returned user account information and process a user account associated with a user based upon the employment status of the user.

Claims

1. A method for user aging in an eRoom server, the method comprising:

sending a request for eRoom user accounts in a Server Member List (SML);

returning user account information in response to the request;

checking an employment status of each user associated with a returned user account information; and

processing a user account associated with a user based upon the employment status of the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the action of processing the user account comprises:

checking if the user has logged into the eRoom server within a given timeframe, if the user is under active status;

if the user has logged into the eRoom server within the given timeframe, then processing another user account; and

if the user has not logged into the eRoom server within the given timeframe, then updating information of the user in a database, and sending a warning to the user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the database is in an SQL server.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the warning comprises an instruction for the user to access the user account to maintain active status of the user account.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

updating the database to indicate that a warning was previously sent to the user.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

if the user has not logged into the eRoom server within the given timeframe, then disabling the account of the user.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

sending a disable message to the user, where the disable message indicates that the user account has been disabled.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

deleting the user account after a delete timeframe has occurred.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

sending a delete message to the user, where the delete message indicates that the user account has been deleted.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deleting the user account after a delete timeframe has occurred, if the user is on limited status.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

sending a delete message to the user, where the delete message indicates that the user account has been deleted.

12. An apparatus for user aging in an eRoom server, the apparatus comprising:

means for sending a request for eRoom user accounts in a Server Member List (SML);

means for returning user account information in response to the request;

means for checking an employment status of each user associated with a returned user account information; and

means for processing a user account associated with a user based upon the employment status of the user.

13. An article of manufacture, comprising:

a machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions to;

send a request for eRoom user accounts in a Server Member List (SML);

return user account information in response to the request;

check an employment status of each user associated with a returned user account information; and

process a user account associated with a user based upon the employment status of the user.

14. An apparatus for user aging in an eRoom server, the apparatus comprising:

an automated user aging module configured to send a request for eRoom user accounts in a Server Member List (SML) and receive user account information in response to the request;

the automated user aging module further configured to check an employment status of each user associated with a returned user account information and process a user account associated with a user based upon the employment status of the user.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the automated user aging module is configured to check if the user has logged into the eRoom server within a given timeframe, if the user is under active status;

the automated user aging module configured to process another user account if the user has logged into the eRoom server within the given timeframe and to update information of the user in a database and send a warning to the user if the user has not logged into the eRoom server within the given timeframe.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the database is in an SQL server.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the warning comprises an instruction for the user to access the user account to maintain active status of the user account.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the automated user aging module is configured to update the database to indicate that a warning was previously sent to the user.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the automated user aging module is configured to disable the account of the user if the user has not logged into the eRoom server within the given timeframe.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the automated user aging module is configured to send a disable message to the user, where the disable message indicates that the user account has been disabled.

21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the automated user aging module is configured to delete the user account after a delete timeframe has occurred.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, wherein the automated user aging module is configured to send a delete message to the user, where the delete message indicates that the user account has been deleted.

23. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the automated user aging module is configured to delete the user account after a delete timeframe has occurred, if the user is on limited status.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the automated user aging module is configured to send a delete message to the user, where the delete message indicates that the user account has been deleted.