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User-customizable permissions in a computing environment

  • US 9,710,127 B2
  • Filed: 12/03/2014
  • Issued: 07/18/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a database storing data objects identifying permissions of users governing user access to computing resources in a computing system, sets of the permissions, and users; and

    a server system in communication with the database, the server system comprising one or more processors configurable to cause;

    displaying, in a user interface on a display of a user device, one or more fields configured to receive input to perform one or more of;

    defining or updating a custom permission definable by an authorized user of the computing system, associating a custom permission with a computing resource, assigning a custom permission to a permission set, or assigning a permission set to which a custom permission has been assigned to a user;

    defining or updating, based on first input from a first user via the user interface on the display of the user device, a custom permission;

    associating, based on second input from the first user via the user interface on the display of the user device, the custom permission with a first computing resource, the first computing resource only being accessible to users of the computing system having at least one of a plurality of designated licenses;

    processing a request from the first user via the user interface on the display of the user device to assign the custom permission to a first permission set;

    determining, responsive to processing the request, that each user to whom the first permission set is assigned has at least one of the plurality of designated licenses; and

    assigning, responsive to determining that each user to whom the first permission set is assigned has at least one of the plurality of designated licenses, the custom permission to the first permission set.

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