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Administrative roles that govern access to administrative functions

  • US 6,161,139 A
  • Filed: 02/12/1999
  • Issued: 12/12/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of distributing administration functions of an access control computer system to multiple users of the system, comprising the computer implemented steps of:

  • storing information that defines one or more administrative roles, in which each of the administrative roles includes one or more administrative privileges that authorizes one or more administrative functions;

    storing information that associates one or more of the administrative roles with at least one of the users of the access control computer;

    receiving from the user a request to execute one of the administrative functions; and

    executing the one of the administrative functions only when the user is associated with one of the administrative roles that includes an administrative privilege authorizing the administrative function.

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