SUGGESTED CONTENT WITH ATTRIBUTE PARAMETERIZATION

• US 20110246443A1
• Filed: 04/04/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Davis, Mark, Krishnaprasad, Muralidhar, Bhavsar, Meeten, Bhatkar, Sachin, Hsin, Cindy, Delgado, Joaquin, Ouyang, Hui
• Granted Patent: US 8,352,475 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/709
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• 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 2221/2115 Third party
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security

Abstract

A flexible and extensible architecture allows for secure searching across an enterprise. Such an architecture can provide a simple Internet-like search experience to users searching secure content inside (and outside) the enterprise. The architecture allows for the crawling and searching of a variety of sources across an enterprise, regardless of whether any of these sources conform to a conventional user role model. The architecture further allows for security attributes to be submitted at query time, for example, in order to provide real-time secure access to enterprise resources. The user query also can be transformed to provide for dynamic querying that provides for a more current result list than can be obtained for static queries.

Claims

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. A method of utilizing a self-service source, the method comprising:

defining a template source for a plurality of self-service sources;

defining a target data repository without required security credentials;

allowing one or more end users to subscribe to the template source;

receiving user credentials and entering the user credentials into the template source;

in response to receiving and entering the user credentials, creating a user-subscribed source;

generating an access control list for the one or more users to be subscribed to the user-subscribed source;

receiving a crawl request from the one or more users to crawl one or more personalized target sources;

matching the end user'"'"'s credentials to the template source; and

authenticating during the crawling the augmenting the one or more end users'"'"' credentials and the template source.

27. The method according to claim 26, further comprising dynamically inheriting changes from the template source to the user-described source for each subsequent crawl.

28. The method according to claim 26, wherein the user credentials are temporarily stored.

29. The method according to claim 26, further comprising defining a corpus boundary to be searched.

30. The method according to claim 29, further comprising if a link is discovered outside the corpus boundary, storing the link as a suggested link for a subsequent crawl.

31. The method according to claim 30, further comprising if it is determined that a link is within the corpus boundary, removing the link as a suggested link.

32. The method according to claim 31, further comprising generating a list of suggested links.

33. The method according to claim 32, further comprising based on the list of suggested links, determining which of the links within the list of suggested links to display.

34. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having sets of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

define a template source for a plurality of self-service sources;

define a target data repository without required security credentials;

allow one or more end users to subscribe to the template source;

receive user credentials and enter the user credentials into the template source;

in response to receiving and entering the user credentials, create a user-subscribed source;

generate an access control list for the one or more users to be subscribed to the user-subscribed source;

receive a crawl request from the one or more users to crawl one or more personalized target sources;

match the end user'"'"'s credentials to the template source; and

authenticate during the crawling the augmenting the one or more end users credentials and the template source.

35. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 34, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the computer cause the computer to dynamically inherit changes from the template source to the user-described source for each subsequent crawl.

36. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 34, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the computer cause the computer to define a corpus boundary to be searched.

37. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 36, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the computer cause the computer to if a link is discovered outside the corpus boundary, store the link as a suggested link for a subsequent crawl.

38. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 37, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the computer cause the computer to if it is determined that a link is within the corpus boundary, remove the link as a suggested link.

39. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 38, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the computer cause the computer to generate a list of suggested links.

40. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 39, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the computer cause the computer to based on the list of suggested links, determine which of the links within the list of suggested links to display.

41. A system for utilizing a self-service source, the system comprising:

a storage medium; and

a processor coupled with the storage medium, wherein the storage medium includes sets of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

define a template source for a plurality of self-service sources;

define a target data repository without required security credentials;

allow one or more end users to subscribe to the template source;

receive user credentials and enter the user credentials into the template source;

in response to receiving and entering the user credentials, create a user-subscribed source;

generate an access control list for the one or more users to be subscribed to the user-subscribed source;

receive a crawl request from the one or more users to crawl one or more personalized target sources;

match the end user'"'"'s credentials to the template source; and

authenticate during the crawling the augmenting the one or more end users'"'"' credentials and the template source.

42. The system according to claim 41, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the processor, cause the processor to define a corpus boundary to be searched.

43. The system according to claim 42, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the processor, cause the processor to if a link is discovered outside the corpus boundary, store the link as a suggested link for a subsequent crawl.

44. The system according to claim 43, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the processor, cause the processor to if it is determined that a link is within the corpus boundary, remove the link as a suggested link.

45. The system according to claim 44, wherein the sets of instructions when further executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a list of suggested links and based on the list of suggested links determine which of the links within the list of suggested links to display.