CONTROLLING CONSUMPTION OF HIERARCHICAL REPOSITORY DATA

• US 20140173753A1
• Filed: 12/18/2012
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Sanso, Antonio, Meschberger, Felix
• Granted Patent: US 10,069,838 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities

Abstract

One exemplary embodiment involves receiving, from an administrator device, a first request to provide a set of privileges to at least one of a set of users and a set of user groups to access private resources referenced by a path of a networked hierarchical repository, the set of privileges including at least one authorized access privilege. The embodiment also involves modifying a metadata associated with the private resources to indicate the set of privileges to provide to the at least one of the set of users and the set of user groups, the metadata associated with the private resources being modified to at least indicate the authorized access privilege. Additionally, the embodiment involves receiving a second request for authorized access to a set of resources associated with the networked hierarchical repository and providing the authorized access based on whether the metadata associated with the set of resources indicates to provide the authorized access.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, at a server device comprising a processor, a request to provide a set of privileges to at least one of a set of users and a set of user groups to access resources referenced by a path of a networked hierarchical repository, the set of privileges including at least one privilege for authorized access to the resources; and

modifying, at the server device, a metadata associated with the resources to indicate the set of privileges to provide to the at least one of the set of users and the set of user groups for accessing the resources.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a user identifier associated with the requesting user;

determining whether the user identifier corresponds with the at least one of the set of users and the set of user groups indicated by the metadata associated with the resources; and

responsive to the determination that the user identifier corresponds with the at least one of the set of users and the set of user groups, providing the resources to the requesting user according to the set of privileges.

3. The computer-readable method of claim 1, wherein the networked hierarchical repository is implemented based at least in part on a representational state transfer (“

REST”

) architecture.

4. The computer-readable method of claim 1, wherein the networked hierarchical repository includes content managed based at least in part on a Java platform specification for access to content repositories (“

JCR”

).

5. The computer-readable method of claim 1, wherein the networked hierarchical repository includes content comprising at least one of media, documents, and software files.

6. The computer-readable method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a user interface to transmit the request to provide the set of privileges to at least one of a set of users and a set of user groups to access resources referenced by a path of a networked hierarchical repository.

7. The computer-readable method of claim 6, wherein the user interface includes a listing of a set of paths that reference resources included in the networked hierarchical repository and a listing of the set of privileges.

8. The computer-readable method of claim 6, wherein the user interface includes a listing of the at least one of the set of users and the set of user groups.

9. A system comprising:

a processor for executing instructions stored in computer-readable medium on one or more devices,

the application comprising one or more modules configured to perform the steps comprising;

receiving, from a client device, a request to access a set of resources associated with a networked hierarchical repository;

determining whether a metadata associated with the requested resources indicates to provide authorized access to the resources; and

responsive to the determination that the metadata indicates to provide access according to the authorized access, providing, to the client device, the authorized access to the requested resources.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

determining whether the metadata associated with the requested resources indicates to provide the authorized access according to a OAuth standard to at least one of a set of users and a set of user groups that corresponds with a user on the client device; and

responsive to the determination that the metadata associated with the requested resources indicates to provide the access according to the OAuth standard to at least one of a set of users and a set of user groups that corresponds with a user on the client device, providing access to the requested resources according to the OAuth standard.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the request to access the set of resources comprises a request for accessing without any credentials.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the OAuth standard facilitates providing access to resources without any credentials.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the networked hierarchical repository is implemented based at least in part on a representational state transfer (“

REST”

) architecture.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the networked hierarchical repository includes content managed based at least in part on a Java platform specification for access to content repositories (“

JCR”

).

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the networked hierarchical repository includes content managed based at least in part on a Java platform specification for access to content repositories (“

JCR”

).

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which is encoded program code, the program code comprising:

program code for receiving, from an administrator device, a first request to provide a set of privileges to at least one of a set of users and a set of user groups to access private resources referenced by a path of a networked hierarchical repository, the set of privileges including at least one authorized access privilege;

program code for modifying a metadata associated with the private resources to indicate the set of privileges to provide to the at least one of the set of users and the set of user groups, the metadata associated with the private resources being modified to at least indicate the authorized access privilege;

program code for receiving, from a client device, a second request for authorized access to a set of resources associated with the networked hierarchical repository;

program code for determining whether the metadata associated with the set of resources indicates to provide the authorized access; and

responsive to a determination that the metadata indicates to provide the authorized access, program code for providing, to the requesting client device, the authorized access to the second set of resources.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

responsive to a determination that the metadata does not indicate to provide the authorized access, program code for denying authorized access to the second set of resources to the requesting client device.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

program code for determining whether the metadata associated with the second set of resources indicates to provide the authorized access according to an OAuth standard to at least one of a set of users and a set of user groups that corresponds with a user on the client device; and

responsive to the determination that the metadata associated with the second set of resources indicates to provide the authorized access according to the OAuth standard to at least one of a set of users and a set of user groups that corresponds with a user on the client device, program code for providing access to the requested resources according to the OAuth standard.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

program code for providing a user interface to transmit the first request to provide the set of privileges to at least one of a set of users and a set of user groups to access resources referenced by a path of a networked hierarchical repository.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the networked hierarchical repository is implemented based at least in part on a representational state transfer (“

REST”

) architecture.