VARIABLE USER INTERFACE BASED ON DOCUMENT ACCESS PRIVILEGES

• US 20100077005A1
• Filed: 11/30/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• 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, Sriver, Joe, Smith, Adam M., MacGillivray, Alexander, Khaliq, Siraj
• Granted Patent: US 8,364,712 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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:

determining access privileges to a document for a user based on location information associated with the user and access rights associated with the document;

formatting one or more portions of the document for display to the user based on the determined access privileges; and

providing the formatted portions of the document to the user.

2-34. -34. (canceled)