System, method and computer program product for publicly providing web content of a tenant using a multi-tenant on-demand database service

• US 9,219,775 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2013
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Cinarkaya, Bulent, Tamm, Steven, Sureshchandra, Jayesh, Warshavsky, Alex, Bulumulla, Irandi Upeka, Fry, Benjamin, Scott, Kenneth Douglas, Brooks, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Hershley, Mark E.
• Application Number:
  US13/873,122
• Publication Number:
  US 20130239228A1
• Time in Patent Office: 967 Days
• Field of Search: 707/778
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/282 Hierarchical databases, e.g. IMS, LDAP data stores or Lotus Notes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1012 to domains
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1015 to users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/60 Protecting data
• 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 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for publicly providing web content of a tenant using a multi-tenant on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for publicly providing web content of a tenant using a multi-tenant on-demand database service can allow the web content to be published by a tenant using the multi-tenant on-demand database service for use by non-tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program product, the computer program product comprising instruction adapted to be executed by a computer to perform a method comprising:

storing authentication information for subscribers of a database service, each of the subscribers having an account with the database service;

storing, by the database service, web content of each of the subscribers;

in response to a request by one of the subscribers to log into the database service, authenticating the subscriber with the database service, using the authentication information stored for the subscriber;

after authenticating the subscriber with the database service, receiving, by the database service, information from the subscriber, the information including;

a name by which the web content of the subscriber is capable of being accessed, wherein the name is received by the subscriber registering the name with the database service, and

security settings for the web content, wherein the security settings indicate each portion of the web content that is allowed to be publicly accessed by non-subscribers of the database service;

mapping the name to the account that the subscriber has established with the database service;

storing the security settings in association with the account of the subscriber;

publicly providing the web content to a non-subscriber of the database service using the database service, based on the information, by;

receiving a request from the non-subscriber for the web content, wherein the request includes the name,

identifying the account of the subscriber using the name by identifying the mapping of the name to the account of the subscriber,

identifying the security settings for the web content using the identification of the account of the subscriber,

determining the portions of the web content that the security settings allow to be provided to the non-subscriber, and

providing the determined portions of the web content to a web-browser of a device of the non-subscriber.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the web content is a website.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the web content is provided by the subscriber to the database service for storage by the database service for the subscriber.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the name by which the web content of the subscriber is capable of being accessed is a domain name.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the security settings are received utilizing a graphical user interface (GUI) of the database service.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 5, wherein the GUI is utilized by the subscriber for configuring the security settings.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, further comprising storing the security settings in association with the web content of the subscriber.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein the security settings are only applied with respect to provisioning of the web content of the subscriber.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein determining the portions of the web content that the security settings allow to be provided to the non-subscriber includes applying the security settings to the associated web content.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the non-subscriber is not authorized to use the database service.

11. A method, comprising:

storing authentication information for subscribers of a database service, each of the subscribers having an account with the database service;

storing, by the database service, web content of each of the subscribers;

in response to a request by one of the subscribers to log into the database service, authenticating the subscriber with the database service, using the authentication information stored for the subscriber;

after authenticating the subscriber with the database service, receiving, by the database service, information from the subscriber, the information including;

a name by which the web content of the subscriber is capable of being accessed, wherein the name is received by the subscriber registering the name with the database service, and

security settings for the web content, wherein the security settings indicate each portion of the web content that is allowed to be publicly accessed by non-subscribers of the database service;

mapping the name to the account that the subscriber has established with the multi-subscriber database service;

storing the security settings in association with the account of the subscriber;

publicly providing the web content to a non-subscriber of the database service using the database service, based on the information, by;

receiving a request from the non-subscriber for the web content, wherein the request includes the name,

identifying the account of the subscriber using the name by identifying the mapping of the name to the account of the subscriber,

identifying the security settings for the web content using the identification of the account of the subscriber,

determining the portions of the web content that the security settings allow to be provided to the non-subscriber, and

providing the determined portions of the web content to a web-browser of a device of the non-subscriber.

12. A system, comprising:

a processor for;

storing authentication information for subscribers of a database service, each of the subscribers having an account with the database service;

storing, by the database service, web content of each of the subscribers;

in response to a request by one of the subscribers to log into the database service, authenticating the subscriber with the database service, using the authentication information stored for the subscriber;

after authenticating the subscriber with the database service, receiving, by the database service, information from the subscriber, the information including;

a name by which the web content of the subscriber is capable of being accessed, wherein the name is received by the subscriber registering the name with the database service, and

security settings for the web content, wherein the security settings indicate each portion of the web content that is allowed to be publicly accessed by non-subscribers of the database service;

mapping the name to the account that the subscriber has established with the database service;

storing the security settings in association with the account of the subscriber;

publicly providing the web content to a non-subscriber of the database service using the database service, based on the information, by;

receiving a request from the non-subscriber for the web content, wherein the request includes the name,

identifying the account of the subscriber using the name by identifying the mapping of the name to the account of the subscriber,

identifying the security settings for the web content using the identification of the account of the subscriber,

determining the portions of the web content that the security settings allow to be provided to the non-subscriber, and

providing the determined portions of the web content to a web-browser of a device of the non-subscriber.