Rights management

• US 20060070124A1
• Filed: 09/23/2005
• Published: 03/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bayer Business Services GmbH (Bayer AG)
• Original Assignee: Bayer Business Services GmbH (Bayer AG)
• Inventors: Arndt, Wolfgang, Scheler, Frank, Bochmann, Joachim
• Application Number:
  US11/233,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20060070124A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/17
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/1458 by checking the subject access rights
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/78 to assure secure storage of data address-based protection against unauthorised use of memory G06F12/14; record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00

Abstract

A device and a method with a memory for the storage of data with a means for limiting the access rights to the data for a user. Usernames provided at authentication posse specific user rights, such as super administrator rights or independent inheritance rights. Thus the rights management is simplified to a certain degree, since the administrator is not required to assign rights to additional users. Furthermore, a temporal process of rights control is provided, whereby the administrator is not required to controlling the granting or terminating rights.

Claims

1. A device having a memory for data storage comprising means for limiting the access rights to the data storage for a user.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the means for limiting the access rights is controlled temporally.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the means for limiting the access rights is designed such that the user is granted unlimited access.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the means for limiting the access is specified, such that at least an allocation between the user and the access rights is ascertainable.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the means for limiting the access rights is designed in such a way that no user is granted unlimited access.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the means for limiting the access rights is designed such that independent inheritance of access rights is possible for the user.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein the inherited access right inheritance of access rights is object-based.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the access rights of the user correspond to a company structure.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the data are created and/or managed by a database.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the database is a partitioned database.

11. The device according to claim 1, wherein the data include information about commercial intellectual property rights.

12. (canceled)

13. (canceled)

14. A data processing system for restricting user access rights comprising

(a) a computer processor means for processing data;

(b) storage means for storing data on a storage medium;

(c) means for limiting access to the stored data to individual users.

15. The data processing system according to claim 15, wherein the means for limiting access is designed such that no individual user has unlimited access rights.

16. A method for controlling user access to a database stored in a memory medium in a computer, the method comprising the steps of

(a) providing a computer processor for processing data;

(b) providing means for storing data on a storage medium;

(c) providing means for limiting access to the stored data.

17. The method for controlling user access to a database stored in a memory medium in a computer according to claim 16, wherein the provided means for storing the data includes Structural Query Language providing a plurality of commands designed for limiting access.

18. A data processing system for restricting user access rights comprising

(a) a computer processor means for processing data;

(b) storage means for storing data on a storage medium;

(c) means for limiting access to the stored data to individual users.