System and method for provisioning user access to web site components in a portal framework

• US 9,521,046 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2013
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc
• Original Assignee: Open Text Sa Ulc (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Anuff, Ed, Harbaugh, Edith, Vonderweid, Ethan, Petersen, John, Phillips, Amy, Guyot, Noah, Moses, Dean, MacLeod, Dave, Chaudhary, Siddharth Rishi Raj
• Primary Examiner(s): Lin, Kenny
• Application Number:
  US14/061,474
• Publication Number:
  US 20140052839A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/20 Network management software packages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/28 Restricting access to network management systems or functions, e.g. using authorisation function to access network configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A site in a portal management framework may have a set of site objects given a single identity. The site may be created in the portal management framework by a console object. The portal management framework may have at least one portal providing a gateway for access to the site. Sets of users granted administrative privileges with respect to a site object may further grant and delegate administrative privileges to other sets of users to perform administration type operations on site objects over which they have administrative privileges. Server consoles may be provided for performing administration on object(s) in the portal management framework. Site consoles may be provided for performing administration on object(s) with respect to each site.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

one or more computing devices communicatively coupled to at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by the one or more computing devices to;

create a site associated with a portal management framework on a computer network, the site comprising a set of site objects given a single identity, the portal management framework providing a gateway for access to the site; and

define a first set of permissions, wherein a first permission in the first set of permissions defines a first set of users having access to a site object in the set of site objects.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a first console object configured for creating the site and the first set of permissions.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a second console object configured for mapping each site object in the set of site objects to at least one of:

a domain name server or a uniform resource locator.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a site console comprising a user interface associated with an administration site operable to perform administration on one or more sites in the portal management framework.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a server console comprising a user interface associated with a server administration site operable to perform administration on one or more or all objects in the portal management framework.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the first permission in the first set of permissions further defines a second set of users having access to the site object in the set of site objects based on a relationship between the first set of users and the second set of users.

7. A computer program product comprising at least a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by one or more computing devices to:

create a site associated with a portal management framework on a computer network, the site comprising a set of site objects given a single identity, the portal management framework providing a gateway for access to the site;

define a first set of permissions, wherein a first permission in the first set of permissions defines a first set of users having access to a site object in the set of site objects.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a first console object configured for creating the site and the first set of permissions.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a second console object configured for mapping each site object in the set of site objects to at least one of:

a domain name server or a uniform resource locator.

10. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a site console comprising a user interface associated with an administration site operable to perform administration on one or more sites in the portal management framework.

11. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a server console comprising a user interface associated with a server administration site operable to perform administration on one or more or all objects in the portal management framework.

12. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the first permission in the first set of permissions further defines a second set of users having access to the site object in the set of site objects based on a relationship between the first set of users and the second set of users.

13. A method for performing administration on a portal management framework on a computer network, comprising:

providing, by a computing device on the computer network, a first console object for performing administration on one or more sites in the portal management framework on the computer network, wherein each site of the one or more sites comprises a collection of objects given a single identity, and wherein the administration performed by the first console object comprises;

creating a site on the portal management framework on the computer network, the site comprising a set of site objects given a single identity, the portal management framework providing a gateway for access to the site;

defining a first set of permissions, wherein a first permission in the first set of permissions defines a first set of users having access to a site object in the set of site objects.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

providing a second console object for mapping each site object in the set of site objects to at least one of;

a domain name server or a uniform resource locator.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the first permission in the first set of permissions further defines a first set of administrative privileges for the first set of users with respect to the site object in the set of site objects.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein access to the first console object is in accordance with a second set of administrative privileges granted to a second set of users.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising providing a second console object configured for creating a third permission defining a third set of users having access to the site object in the set of site objects.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the third permissions further defines a third set of administrative privileges for the third set of users with respect to the site object in the set of site objects.

19. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

providing a site console comprising a user interface associated with an administration site operable to perform administration on one or more sites in the portal management framework.

20. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

providing a server console comprising a user interface associated with a server administration site operable to perform administration on one or more or all objects in the portal management framework.