Method and system of applying user permissions to an application program environment

• US 20060179321A1
• Filed: 02/07/2005
• Published: 08/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Actewagl
• Original Assignee: Actewagl
• Inventors: Glasgow, Mark, Mortensen, Shane, Dawson, Nigel
• Application Number:
  US11/053,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20060179321A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/182
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment

Abstract

An embodiment of the invention relates to a method and system of applying a user'"'"'s permission status to an entire application program environment comprising: parsing the entire application program to determine a description of user permission requirements for individual functions, and providing a respective descriptive document. A schema is then produced that models a class structure of the description of user permission requirements based on the descriptive document. The user permissions are applied in accordance with the results of a comparison of a predetermined user'"'"'s permission and the permission requirements in the class structure.

Claims

1. A method for determining user access to an application program environment comprising:

(a) parsing the entire application program to determine a description of user permission requirements;

(b) providing a document containing the description of user permission requirements based on the parsing;

(c) producing a schema that models a class structure of the description of user permission requirements based on the document; and

(d) determining user access based on a comparison of a predetermined user'"'"'s permission and the permission requirements in the class structure.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the document is a XML document, and the schema is a XML schema.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the predetermined user'"'"'s permission is a group permission.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the predetermined user'"'"'s permission is a combination of a group permission and an individual user'"'"'s permission.

5. The method of claim 2 wherein the class structure comprises items of menus and toolbars.

6. A method for applying user permissions to an application program environment comprising:

(a) parsing the entire application program to determine a description of user permission requirements;

(b) providing a document containing the description of user permission requirements based on the parsing of the program application;

(c) producing a schema that models a class structure of the description of user permission requirements based on the document;

(d) creating a proxy application that is called prior to launching the application program environment;

(e) retrieving a user'"'"'s predetermined permission set;

(f) applying the user'"'"'s predetermined permission set to the schema to produce a user'"'"'s permission schema;

(g) launching the application program environment;

(h) applying the user'"'"'s permissions by loading the user'"'"'s permission schema in to the application program environment.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the document is a XML document, and the schema is a XML schema.

8. A system comprising logic stored on a computer readable medium, operable to:

(a) parse the entire application program to determine a description of user permission requirements;

(b) provide a document containing the description of user permission requirements based on the parsing;

(c) produce a schema that models a class structure of the description of user permission requirements based on the document; and

(d) determine user access based on a comparison of a predetermined user'"'"'s permission and the permission requirements in the class structure.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the document is a XML document, and the schema is a XML schema.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the predetermined user'"'"'s permission is a group permission.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the predetermined user'"'"'s permission is a combination of a group permission and an individual user'"'"'s permission.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein the class structure comprises items of menus and toolbars.

13. A system comprising logic stored on a computer readable medium, operable to:

(a) parse the entire application program to determine a description of user permission requirements;

(b) provide a document containing the description of user permission requirements based on the parsing of the program application;

(c) produce a schema that models a class structure of the description of user permission requirements based on the document;

(d) create a proxy application that is called prior to launching the application program environment;

(e) retrieve a user'"'"'s predetermined permission set;

(f) apply the user'"'"'s predetermined permission set to the schema to produce a user'"'"'s permission schema;

(g) launch the application program environment;

(h) apply the user'"'"'s permissions by loading the user'"'"'s permission schema in to the application program environment.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the document is a XML document, and the schema is a XML schema.