System and method for sharing resources

• US 20080306953A1
• Filed: 06/05/2007
• Published: 12/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Prager, Scott H., Kraenzel, Carl J.
• Application Number:
  US11/810,272
• Publication Number:
  US 20080306953A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method and computer program product for defining an activity. One or more resources are associated with the activity. A user is associated with the activity. In response to associating the user with the activity, the user is granted access to the one or more resources associated with the activity.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

defining an activity;

associating one or more resources with the activity;

associating a user with the activity; and

in response to associating the user with the activity, granting the user access to the one or more resources associated with the activity.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

disassociating the user with the activity.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

in response to disassociating the user with the activity, restricting the user'"'"'s access to the one or more resources associated with the activity.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein defining the activity includes:

defining a directory group for the activity.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein associating one or more resources with the activity includes:

associating one or more resources with the directory group defined for the activity.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein associating the user with the activity includes:

adding the user to the directory group defined for the activity.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

disassociating the user with the activity, wherein disassociating the user with the activity includes removing the user from the directory group defined for the activity.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

in response to disassociating the user with the activity, restricting the user'"'"'s access to the one or more resources associated with the activity.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein granting the user access to the one or more resources associated with the activity includes:

interfacing with each of the one or more resources associated with the activity to grant access to each of the one or more resources associated with the activity.

10. The method of claim 3 wherein restricting the user'"'"'s access to the one or more resources associated with the activity includes:

interfacing with each of the one or more resources associated with the activity to restrict the user'"'"'s access to each of the one or more resources associated with the activity.

11. A computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

defining an activity;

associating one or more resources with the activity;

associating a user with the activity; and

in response to associating the user with the activity, granting the user access to the one or more resources associated with the activity.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 further comprising instructions for:

disassociating the user with the activity.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 further comprising instructions for:

in response to disassociating the user with the activity, restricting the user'"'"'s access to the one or more resources associated with the activity.

14. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the instructions for defining the activity include instructions for:

defining a directory group for the activity.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein the instructions for associating one or more resources with the activity include instructions for:

associating one or more resources with the directory group defined for the activity.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 wherein the instructions for associating the user with the activity include instructions for:

adding the user to the directory group defined for the activity.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 further comprising instructions for:

disassociating the user with the activity, wherein disassociating the user with the activity includes removing the user from the directory group defined for the activity.

18. The computer program product of claim 17 further comprising instructions for:

in response to disassociating the user with the activity, restricting the user'"'"'s access to the one or more resources associated with the activity.

19. The computer program product of claim 11 wherein the instructions for granting the user access to the one or more resources associated with the activity include instructions for:

interfacing with each of the one or more resources associated with the activity to grant access to each of the one or more resources associated with the activity.

20. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the instructions for restricting the user'"'"'s access to the one or more resources associated with the activity include instructions for:

interfacing with each of the one or more resources associated with the activity to restrict the user'"'"'s access to each of the one or more resources associated with the activity.