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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURING APPLICATION INFORMATION IN SYSTEM-WIDE SEARCH ENGINES

  • US 20080033954A1
  • Filed: 08/07/2006
  • Published: 02/07/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing a secure, shared search service, comprising:

  • registering a plurality of security filtering modules with said secure, shared search service, wherein each of said security filtering modules is registered by a corresponding one of a plurality of applications, wherein said registering associates each one of said plurality of security filtering modules with said corresponding one of said plurality of applications;

    obtaining data to be indexed from each of said plurality of applications;

    indexing said data into a search index of said secure, shared search service, wherein said indexing causes each indexed document to be associated with one of said applications from which it was obtained to be indexed, and wherein said search index is shared across all of said plurality of applications and a plurality of users;

    receiving a search query from one of said users;

    determining, responsive to said search query and said search index, initial search results; and

    applying said security filtering modules to said initial search results to obtain filtered search results, wherein said applying includes each of said security filtering modules removing documents from said initial search results that that were obtained from corresponding ones of said applications and to which said one of said users does not have access.

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