Variable user interface based on document access privileges

• US 8,832,150 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2013
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Sullivan, Joseph K., Khaliq, Siraj, Smith, Adam M., MacGillivray, Alexander, Sriver, Joe
• Primary Examiner(s): Bullock, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US13/739,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20130124560A1
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• Field of Search: 707/783, 726/27
• US Class Current: 707/783
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• 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: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices

Abstract

Users may be presented with different viewing interfaces for a document based on a combination of factors relating to display rights possessed for the document and user specific information. In one implementation, the user'"'"'s location is used to determine portions of the document that can be displayed to the user. More particularly, access privileges to a document for a user are determined based on geographical location information of the user and based on access rights possessed for the document. Portions of the document may then be formatted for display to the user based on the determined access privileges.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining, using one or more processors associated with one or more server devices, access privileges for a user of a document based on information associated with the user and access rights associated with the document;

obtaining, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, display right information relating to display rights granted by a source of the document for content of the document;

determining, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices and based on the obtained access privileges for the user of the document and the obtained display right information, one or more first portions of the document to be readable by the user and one or more second portions of the document to be unreadable by the user;

formatting, using one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, based on the obtained access privileges and display right information, the document for display, where formatting the document further comprises;

processing the one or more first portions of the document determined to be readable by the user; and

processing the one or more second portions of the document determined to be unreadable by the user; and

providing, for display and using one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, the processed one or more readable first portions and a representation of content associated with the processed one or more unreadable second portions.

2. The method of claim 1, where the information associated with the user includes one or more of:

information regarding a geographic location of the user,

information relating to whether a device, associated with the user, accepts cookies, or

security information relating to the user.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing a plurality of versions of the document, stored versions of the document including subsets of the document; and

selecting an appropriate version of the document from among the stored plurality of versions of the document responsive at least in part to the obtained access privileges for the user of the document and the obtained access rights associated with the document.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a search query;

identifying, based on the search query, the document; and

providing the document.

5. The method of claim 1, where the one or more second portions of the document include one or more images and the display right information indicates that the one or more images should be blocked when providing the document.

6. The method of claim 1, where the one or more second portions of the document are one of blurred or blocked responsive to the display right information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining an amount of the document to be provided for display based on the content of the document.

8. A device comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

one or more processors to execute the instructions in the memory to;

obtain access privileges for a user of a document based on information associated with the user and access rights associated with the document;

obtain display right information relating to display rights granted by a source of the document for content of the document;

determine, based on the obtained access privileges for the user of the document and the obtained display right information, one or more first portions of the document to be readable by the user and one or more second portions of the document to be unreadable by the user;

format, based on the obtained access privileges and display right information, the document for display, where formatting the document further comprises;

processing the one or more first portions of the document determined to be readable by the user; and

processing the one or more second portions of the document determined to be unreadable by the user; and

provide, for display, the processed one or more readable first portions and a representation of text associated with the processed one or more unreadable second portions.

9. The device of claim 8, where the information associated with the user includes one or more of:

information regarding a geographic location of the user,

information relating to whether a device, associated with the user, accepts cookies, or

security information relating to the user.

10. The device of claim 8, where the one or more processors are further to:

store a plurality of versions of the document, stored versions of the document including subsets of the document; and

select an appropriate version of the document from among the stored plurality of versions of the document responsive at least in part to the obtained access privileges for the user of the document and the obtained access rights associated with the document.

11. The device of claim 8, where the one or more processors are further to:

receive a search query;

identify, based on the search query, the document; and

provide the document.

12. The device of claim 8, where the one or more second portions of the document are blurred responsive to the display right information.

13. The device of claim 8, where the one or more second portions of the document are blocked responsive to the display right information.

14. The device of claim 8, where the one or more processors are further to:

determine an amount of the document to be provided for display based on the content of the document.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:

one or more instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

obtain access privileges for a user of a document based on information associated with the user and access rights associated with the document;

obtain display right information relating to display rights granted by a source of the document for content of the document;

determine, based on the obtained access privileges for the user of the document and the obtained display right information, one or more first portions of the document to be readable by the user and one or more second portions of the document to be unreadable by the user;

format, based on the obtained access privileges and display right information, the document for display, where formatting the document further comprises;

processing the one or more first portions of the document determined to be readable by the user; and

processing the one or more second portions of the document determined to be unreadable by the user; and

provide, for display, the processed one or more readable first portions and a representation of text associated with the processed one or more unreadable second portions.

16. The medium of claim 15, where the information associated with the user includes one or more of:

information regarding a geographic location of the user,

information relating to whether a device, associated with the user, accepts cookies, or

security information relating to the user.

17. The medium of claim 15, further comprising:

one or more instructions to cause the at least one processor to store a plurality of versions of the document, stored versions of the document including subsets of the document; and

one or more instructions to cause the at least one processor to select an appropriate version of the document from among the stored plurality of versions of the document responsive at least in part to the obtained access privileges for the user of the document and the obtained access rights associated with the document.

18. The medium of claim 15, further comprising:

one or more instructions to cause the at least one processor to receive a search query;

one or more instructions to cause the at least one processor to identify, based on the search query, the document; and

one or more instructions to cause the at least one processor to provide the document.

19. The medium of claim 15, where the one or more second portions of the document are one of blurred or blocked.

20. The medium of claim 15, further comprising:

one or more instructions to determine an amount of the document to be provided for display based on the content of the document.