METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING ACCESS TO FILES

• US 20130263275A1
• Filed: 04/02/2012
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Varonis Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Varonis Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: FAITELSON, Yakov, KORKUS, Ohad, BASS, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,747,459 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems

Abstract

A method for requesting access rights for an object of a computerized system comprising installing in the computerized system a code that associates an object with an owner of the object, thereby enabling to automatically request access rights for the object from an owner of the object, and an apparatus for performing the same.

Claims

1. A method for requesting access rights for an object of a computerized system, comprising:

installing in the computerized system a code that associates an object with an owner of the object, thereby enabling to automatically request access rights for the object from an owner of the object,

wherein the method is carried out by an at least one computer of the computerized system.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein enabling to automatically request access rights for the object comprises enabling to automatically notify the owner responsive to triggering a presented representation of the object.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a user of the computerized system does not have access rights for the object.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the user is ignorant who the owner of the object is.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the user is ignorant about contact information of the owner.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein triggering the presented representation of the object comprises pointing by a pointing device at the presented representation of the object.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein triggering the presented representation of the object further comprises operating the pointing device.

8. The method according to claim 2, wherein notifying the owner comprises at least one of sending an email to the owner, sending SMS to the owner, instant messaging the owner, telephoning the owner, or any combination thereof.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the code is at least one of an add-on program, a plug-in program, a script or any combination thereof.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein associating the object with the owner of the object is based on data maintained in the Computerized system.

11. An apparatus for requesting access rights for an object, comprising:

an at least one computer having a program, the program configured with a code that associates an object with an owner of the object, thereby enabling to automatically request access rights for the object from an owner of the object, and

a pointing device.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein enabling to automatically request access rights for the object comprises enabling to automatically notify the owner responsive to triggering a presented representation of the object.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein a user of the apparatus does not have access rights for the object.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the user is ignorant who the owner of the object is.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein the user is ignorant about contact information of the owner.

16. The method according to claim 12, wherein triggering the presented representation of the object comprises pointing by the pointing device at the presented representation of the object.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein triggering the presented representation of the object further comprises operating the pointing device.

18. The method according to claim 12, wherein notifying the owner comprises at least one of sending an email to the owner, sending SMS to the owner, instant messaging the owner, telephoning the owner, or any combination thereof.

19. The method according to claim 11, wherein the code is at least one of an add-on program, a plug-in program, a script or any combination thereof.

20. The method according to claim 11, wherein associating the object with the owner of the object is based on data maintained in the apparatus.