Dynamic user interface creation based on user responsibilities and company policies

• US 7,533,097 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2004
• Issued: 05/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dubs, Justin T., Zawacki, Jennifer L., Nicholson, John H. III, Ayediran, Abiola O.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong; Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brown; Sheree N
• Application Number:
  US10/880,131
• Publication Number:
  US 20050289104A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,778 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/320, 707/5, 707/10, 707/9, 707/1.9, 707200-206, 717/136, 713/1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/214 Database migration support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability

Abstract

In a customizable data migration method and system, when a migration program is launched, it queries a system server for entity-level and user-level policies. The migration program then creates a customized interface to the user, where the entity-level and user-level polices are applied with hierarchical priorities. In this manner, flexibility is provided in the data migration process. The end user is allowed to maintain a personality on a given user system and to transfer this personality along with the company specified data. This increases the uptime of the user by reducing the re-customization time when the user is cascaded to a new user system.

Claims

1. A method for migrating data files associated with a user from a first computer system to a second computer system, the first computer system having a unique system identifier (ID), the user having a unique user identifier (ID), the method comprising:

querying a database for company-wide policies that specify which types of data files are not movable from the first computer system to the second computer system, the company-wide policies being queried from the database based on the unique system identifier (ID) of the first computer system;

querying the database for user-level policies that specify which types of data files are movable from the first computer system to the second computer system, the user-level policies being queried from the database based on the unique user identifier (ID) of the user, the user-level policies specifying which types of data files are movable from the first computer system to the second computer system based on a role of the user, and wherein the role of the user is a technical designer, and the types of data files that are movable from the first computer system to the second computer system as specified by the user-level policies include computer-aided design (CAD) files;

receiving the company-wide and user-level policies from the database;

creating a customizable user-interface to migrate data files associated with the user from the first computer system to the second computer system based on assigning a hierarchical priority to the company-wide and user-level policies wherein the company-wide policies have a higher priority than the user-level priorities, wherein the user-interface does not provide an option to migrate the types of data files that are not movable from the first computer system to the second computer system as specified by the company-wide policies, and the user interface provides at least one option to migrate the types of data files movable from the first computer system to the second computer system as specified by the user-level policies;

displaying the user-interface at the first computer system;

receiving user inputs for the at least one option; and

performing the migration.

2. A method for migrating data files associated with a user from a first computer system to a second computer system, the first computer system having a unique system identifier (ID), the user having a unique user identifier (ID), the method comprising:

querying a database for company-wide policies that specify which types of data files are not movable from the first computer system to the second computer system, the company-wide policies being queried from the database based on the unique system identifier (ID) of the first computer system;

querying the database for user-level policies that specify which types of data files are movable from the first computer system to the second computer system, the user-level policies being queried from the database based on the unique user identifier (ID) of the user, the user-level policies specifying which types of data files are movable from the first computer system to the second computer system based on a role of the user, and wherein the role of the user is a software engineer, wherein the types of data files that are movable from the first computer system to the second computer system as specified by the user-level policies include C++ source code (CPP) files and Java files;

receiving the company-wide and user-level policies from the database;

creating a customizable user-interface to migrate data files associated with the user from the first computer system to the second computer system based on assigning a hierarchical priority to the company-wide and user-level policies wherein the company-wide policies have a higher priority than the user-level priorities, wherein the user-interface does not provide an option to migrate the types of data files that are not movable from the first computer system to the second computer system as specified by the company-wide policies, and the user interface provides at least one option to migrate the types of data files movable from the first computer system to the second computer system as specified by the user-level policies;

displaying the user-interface at the first computer system

receiving user inputs for the at least one option; and

performing the migration.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the option to migrate the types of data files that are to be saved from the first computer system to the second computer system as specified by the user-level policies is a default option provided by the user-interface.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the user-interface includes an option to override the default option.