Systems and Methods for Document-Level Access Control in a Contextual Collaboration Framework

• US 20160099949A1
• Filed: 10/02/2015
• Published: 04/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Clique Intelligence
• Original Assignee: Clique Intelligence
• Inventors: Leondires, Art, Lobo, Sanjay, McLeod, Alan
• Application Number:
  US14/873,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20160099949A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• 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: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for managing contextual collaborations. User data corresponding to a plurality of users is stored. The plurality of users include at least a first and second user. A first computing device associated with the first user receives a first access-level designation for a first document included in a first contextual collaboration. The first access-level designation is stored in association with the first user and the first document. A request to access the first document included in the first contextual collaboration is received from a second computing device associated with a second user. Based on the stored first access-level designation, it is determined whether to provide access to the first document by the second computing device associated with the second user. A response is transmitted to the second computing device associated with the second user, the response granting or denying access to the first document.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A system for managing contextual collaborations, comprising:

a memory operable to store user data corresponding to a plurality of users, the plurality of users including at least a first user and a second user, and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being operable to;

receive, from a first computing device associated with the first user, a first access-level designation for a first document included in a first contextual collaboration;

store the first access-level designation in association with the first user and the first document;

receive, from a second computing device associated with a second user, a request to access the first document included in the first contextual collaboration;

determine, based on the first access-level designation stored in association with the first document, whether to provide access to the first document by the second computing device associated with the second user; and

transmitting a response to the second computing device associated with the second user, the response granting or denying access to the first document.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the first user is an owner of the first document.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein the access-level designation of the first document selected, via the first computing device, from a list of predefined sets of access level designations.

25. The system of claim 22, wherein the first access-level designation is caused to be displayed at computing devices corresponding to the plurality of users.

26. The system of claim 22, wherein the first access-level designation is selected from a set of access-level designations.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the set of access-level designations includes a first user-access designation, a second user-access designation, a third user-access designation and a fourth user-access designation, wherein

the first user-access designation grants access to a document by one or more owners of a document and one or more designated users of the document,

the second user-access designation grants access to a document by a one or more owners of the document and one or more domain users of the document,

the third user-access designation grants access to a document by a one or more owners of the document and one or more domain users of the document, if the one or more owners of the document and/or one or more domain users of the document are subject to an agreement, and

the fourth user-access designation grants access to one or more users that are subject to an agreement.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein

the one or more designated users are users that have been granted access to the document, and

the one or more domain users are users associated with a predetermined domain.

29. The system of claim 28, wherein the one or more domain users are identified using their corresponding user data, including a user domain associated with the user data of each of the plurality of users.

30. The system of claim 28, wherein the process is operable to:

transmit a prompt to the first user requesting confirmation of whether at least one of the plurality of users is subject to an agreement.

31. The system of claim 22, wherein

the first user, the second user and a third user are associated with a first enterprise and with the first contextual collaboration, and

the processor is operable to:

receive, from a third computing device associated with the third user, a request to access the first document included in the first contextual collaboration; and

transmit, to the third computing device associated with the third user, a response including a refusal of access to the first document.