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Fine-grained authorization by authorization table associated with a resource

  • US 7,546,640 B2
  • Filed: 12/10/2003
  • Issued: 06/09/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for determining access rights to a resource managed by an application, the method comprising:

  • receiving a request by the application, wherein the request comprises an action a user seeks to perform on the resource;

    locating, based on the request, the resource in a structure having groupings of resources, wherein each of the groupings have similar authorization constraints for the resources therein;

    reading an authorization table associated with a grouping having the resource among the groupings, wherein the authorization table comprises a mapping of one or more roles to each user, and the roles comprise one or more permitted actions;

    determining, based on the reading, whether to grant the access rights for performing the action on the resource; and

    whereby, assigning users to one or more of the groupings permits enhanced scalability and limited storage requirements.

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