System and method for registering user identifiers

• US 6,564,247 B1
• Filed: 11/18/1999
• Issued: 05/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Todorov, Danton I.
• Primary Examiner(s): Geckil, Mehmet B.
• Application Number:
  US09/442,725
• Time in Patent Office: 1,272 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/246, 709/206, 713/200, 713/201, 713/202, 380/25, 714/4, 707/1, 707/104
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

An ID administration tool includes a request for service (RFS) database, including an approval queue and an error queue. An ID creation database includes registration code, an approved requests file, and a profile documents. A plurality of requests for new user IDs are received into the RFS database, queued in the approval queue, moved to the approved requests file where they are sorted by profile and processed in profile groups to generate the new user IDs.

Claims

1. A method for creating a user identifier (ID) for mail and application systems, comprising the steps of:

receiving an ID request from a user into a source database;

approving and storing said ID request into an ID creation queue;

initiating an ID creation process with respect to said ID creation queue;

creating and designated to said user an e-mail storage facility;

responsive to said ID creation process, selectively upon success notifying said user and closing said ID request; and

enabling said user to manage selected application system resources.

2. The method of claim 1, said ID creation process including the steps of:

moving said ID request from said ID creation queue to an ID creation database;

obtaining a business unit registration profile corresponding to said ID request for enforcing business unit ID creation parameters; and

responsive to said registration profile and said ID request, generating said user ID.

3. The method of claim 2, further including the steps of:

said moving step including moving a plurality of ID requests to said ID creation database;

arranging said ID requests by registration profile name; and

generating said user IDs by registration profile grouping.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of selectively upon failure updating said ID request with a failure indication.

5. The method of claim 2, said ID request including user name and profile name, and optionally including a unique identifier, an ID file destination, an account activation date, and user contact information.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising the steps:

responsive to information in said ID request and in a selected registration profile, selectively;

creating a user ID file;

creating a person document in an address book;

creating a mail file;

selecting type of ID, license and shortname, expiration period, and organizational unit;

creating a document in a password and ID database;

sending a welcome note to said user;

sending a password and ID file to a designated person;

creating a mail file replica on a backup server;

utilizing a certifier with a plurality of passwords;

adding new users to groups; and

enforcing corporate ID standards to a profile of a business unit.

7. A method for registering user identifiers (ID) for mail and application systems, comprising the steps of:

receiving a plurality of ID requests into a source database;

copying said ID requests from said source database to an ID creation database;

responsive to said ID request, obtaining a user profile;

sorting said ID requests in said ID creation database by user profile identifying indicia;

creating and designated to said user an e-mail storage facility;

responsive to said ID request and said user profile, creating a user ID; and

enabling said user to manage selected application system resources.

8. A system for administering user identifiers for mail and application systems, comprising:

means for accepting a database containing a plurality of requests for new user ID'"'"'s sorted by predefined ID creation profiles;

means for accessing a plurality of certifiers for each of the requests to create the user ID with and for future verification of the ID;

means for creating and designated to said user an e-mail storage facility;

means coupled to said means for accessing for placing each user into one or more predefined groups, each of the groups having-access to predefined databases; and

means for enabling said user to manage selected application system resources.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

means coupled to said means for accessing for sending welcome notes to said user;

means coupled to said means for accessing for generating and sending initial passwords and user ID'"'"'s to one or more designated persons for each user.

10. An user identifier (ID) administration system, comprising:

a request for service (RFS) database, including an approval queue and an error queue;

an ID creation database including registration code, an approved requests file, and a profile documents file;

said RFS database being operable for receiving a plurality of ID requests for new user IDs in said approval queue;

said registration code being operable for moving said ID requests to said approved requests file and processing said ID requests in accordance with business unit parameters to generate new user IDs and certificates for enabling said user to exchange encrypted mail and manage selected application system resources.

11. The user identifier administration system of claim 10, said registration code being further operable for sorting said plurality of ID requests by profile and processing said ID requests in profile groups to generate new user IDs.

12. The user identifier administration system of claim 10, said request for service database being operable for storing a plurality of request types including said ID requests and other administration requests, and including name change requests, ID termination requests, and ID recertification requests.

13. A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for creating a user identifier (ID) for mail and application systems, said method steps comprising:

receiving an ID request from a user into a source database;

approving and storing said ID request into an ID creation queue;

initiating an ID creation process with respect to said ID creation queue for generating new user IDs and certificates in accordance with business unit parameters for enabling said user to exchange encrypted mail and manage selected application system resources;

creating and designated to said user an e-mail storage facility;

responsive to said ID creation process, selectively upon success notifying said user and closing said ID request; and

enabling said user to manage selected application system resources.

14. An article of manufacture comprising:

a computer useable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for creating a user identifier (ID) for mail and application systems, the computer readable program means in said article of manufacture comprising;

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect receiving an ID request from a user into a source database;

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect approving and storing said ID request into an ID creation queue;

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect initiating an ID reation process with respect to said ID creation queue for generating new user IDs and certificates in accordance with business unit parameters for enabling said user to exchange encrypted mail and manage selected application system resources; and

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect responsive to said ID creation process, selectively upon failure updating said ID request with a failure indication and upon success notifying said user and closing said ID request.

15. A computer program product or computer program element for creating a user identifier (ID) for mail and application systems according to the steps of:

receiving an ID request from a user into a source database;

approving and storing said ID request into an ID creation queue;

initiating an ID creation process with respect to said ID creation queue for generating new user IDs and certificates in accordance with business unit parameters for enabling said user to exchange encrypted mail and manage selected application system resources; and

responsive to said ID creation process, selectively upon failure updating said ID request with a failure indication and upon success notifying said user and closing said ID request.