System and method for portal rendering

• US 20050187978A1
• Filed: 04/27/2005
• Published: 08/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Fletcher, Adrian, Lor, Robert, Qian, Shelly
• Application Number:
  US11/115,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20050187978A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
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• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99954 : Version management

Abstract

A system for rendering a portal and adapted to communicate with a client, comprising a server to perform a hierarchy of rendering processes in response to communication from the client; and wherein the server can evaluate at least one entitlement to determine a permission associated with an element to be rendered.

Claims

1. A system for rendering a portal and adapted to communicate with a client, comprising:

a server to perform a hierarchy of rendering processes in response to communication from the client; and

wherein the server can evaluate at least one entitlement to determine a permission associated with an element to be rendered.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the server can evaluate at least one entitlement which associates a role with a user based on a role rule.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein:

a rendering process can be a serylet.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the server communicates to the client a portal skin and a portal page template.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein:

the portal page template can be customized for a group and/or by at least one user belonging to the group.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein:

the server selectively binds at least one portlet to the template.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein:

binding is based on the evaluation of the at least one entitlement.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a portal manager, adapted to communicate to the client a portal skin and a portal page template.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an access controller that can provide access to resources based on evaluation the at least one entitlement.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the hierarchy is determined by the client.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the element includes at least one of a portlet element and a portlet.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the permission is whether a user is entitled to any one or more of execute, view or edit a portlet.

13. A system for rendering a portal and adapted to communicate with a client, comprising:

a server configured to perform at least one rendering process in response to communication from the client; and

wherein the server is configured to evaluate at least one entitlement to determine a permission associated with the at least one rendering process.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein:

the server can evaluate at least one entitlement which associates a role with a user based on a role rule.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein:

a rendering process can be a serylet.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein:

the server communicates to the client a portal skin and a portal page template.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein:

the portal page template can be customized for a group and/or by at least one user belonging to the group.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein:

the server selectively binds at least one portlet to the template.

19. The system of claim 18 wherein:

binding is based on the evaluation of the at least one entitlement.

20. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

an access controller configured to access to resources based on evaluation the at least one entitlement.

21. The system of claim 13 wherein:

the permission is whether a user is entitled to any one or more of execute, view or edit a portlet.