System for accessing digital assets
First Claim
1. A system whereby users may access digital assets, the system comprising:
- an access relationship representation of access relationships between the assets and the users, an access relationship indicating one of a plurality of kinds of access by a particular user to a particular asset;
an access checker that employs the access relationship representation to produce a determination of what assets a given user may access; and
an interactive user interface that includes an asset access interface that employs the access checker whenever the asset access interface is used by the given user of the system to make the determination and uses the determination to indicate to the given user only those particular assets which the given user may currently access.
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Abstract
A system for accessing digital assets. The system includes an access control mechanism that permits specification of one of a number of kinds of access by a particular user to a particular asset. The access control mechanism permits determination of what assets a given user may access quickly enough so that the determination may be made every time a user performs an operation on an asset. The user interface for the system is thus able to show a given user only those assets to which the user currently has access. The assets have owners and the assets belonging to an owner are organized into a hierarchy belonging to the owner. The owner of an asset may give other users access to individual assets. Such assets are termed shared assets. Once a user has logged onto the system, the user can access his own assets and those that have been shared with him without further credentials. When a user has access to a shared asset, the user interface for the system shows only that portion of the owner'"'"'s hierarchy which is necessary for the user to reach the shared asset. The user interface further indicates whether a user has seen an asset since the user was given access to it.
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20 Claims
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1. A system whereby users may access digital assets,
the system comprising: -
an access relationship representation of access relationships between the assets and the users, an access relationship indicating one of a plurality of kinds of access by a particular user to a particular asset;
an access checker that employs the access relationship representation to produce a determination of what assets a given user may access; and
an interactive user interface that includes an asset access interface that employs the access checker whenever the asset access interface is used by the given user of the system to make the determination and uses the determination to indicate to the given user only those particular assets which the given user may currently access. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A graphical user interface for a system whereby users may access digital assets, the system including
an access relationship representation of access relationships between the assets and the users, an access relationship indicating one of a plurality of kinds of access by a particular user to a particular asset and an access checker that employs the access relationship representation to produce a determination of what assets a given user may access and the graphical user interface comprising: -
asset indications presented to the given user, the asset indications representing only those particular assets which the determination produced by the access checker indicates that the given user may currently access; and
an input device whereby the given user may specify operations concerning assets, the system responding when the given user specifies an operation by using the access checker to produce the determination. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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