REQUESTING ACCESS TO RESTRICTED OBJECTS BY A REMOTE COMPUTER

• US 20140137269A1
• Filed: 01/22/2014
• Published: 05/15/2014
• 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 9,767,296 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/28
• 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 invoking in a remote computer linkable to the computerized system an add-on program configured for notifying an owner of the object of the computerized system according to received contact data of the owner of the object, thereby requesting from the owner of the object access rights to the object independently of the computerized system, and an apparatus for performing the same.

Claims

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

invoking in a remote computer linkable to the computerized system an add-on program configured for notifying an owner of the object of the computerized system according to received contact data of the owner of the object,

thereby requesting from the owner of the object access rights to the object independently of the computerized system.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the contact data of the owner of the object is received from the computerized system when the remote is linked to the computerized system.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the add-on program is received from the computerized system when the remote computer linkable to the computerized system is linked to the computerized system.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the add-on program is invoked responsive to triggering a displayed representation of the object which is based on a reference to the object received from the computerized system.

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

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

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the user is ignorant who the owner of the object is.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the user is ignorant about contact information of the owner.

9. The method according to claim 4, wherein the triggering of the displayed representation of the object comprises an operation with respect to the displayed representation of the object by a pointing device.

10. The method according to claim 1, 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.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the add-on program is installed in the computer as at least one of a plug-in program, a script, a library, a dynamic-link-library, or any combination thereof.

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

a computerized system having a storage and storing at least one object and contact data of an owner of the at least one object, and further comprising a first communication facility by which data related to the at least one object is providable to devices external to the computerized system; and

an at least one computer comprising a second communication facility for linking with the computerized system, and further having an add-on program installed therein that is configured for notifying, independently of the computerized system, the owner of the at least one object with a request for access rights for the at least one object based on the contact data of the owner of the at least one object as provided by the computerized system.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the at least one computer comprises a screen on which a representation of the at least one object is displayable based on a reference to the object receivable from the computerized system.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the representation of the at least one object when displayed on the screen is triggerable to invoke the add-on program to notify the owner of the at least one object.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein triggering of the displayed representation of the at least one object comprises an operation with respect to the displayed representation of the at least one object by a pointing device.

16. The apparatus 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.

17. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the add-on program is installed in the computer as at least one of a plug-in program, a script, a library, a dynamic-link-library, or any combination thereof.