GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR PERFORMING ADMINISTRATION ON WEB COMPONENTS OF WEB SITES IN A PORTAL FRAMEWORK

• US 20110010454A1
• Filed: 09/20/2010
• Published: 01/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc, OT IP SUB, LLC
• Original Assignee: Open TEXT SA (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Guyot, Noah, Anuff, Ed, Harbaugh, Edith, Chaudhary, Siddharth Rishi Raj, MacLeod, Dave, Phillips, Amy, Petersen, John, Vonderweid, Ethan, Moses, Dean
• Granted Patent: US 8,606,916 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• 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

Graphical user interfaces are provided for administrators to perform administration type operations. Sets of users granted administrative privileges 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. The types of graphical user interfaces includes server consoles and site consoles. Server consoles enable the performance of administration on all objects within the framework. Site consoles enable the performance of administration within a respective site.

Claims

1-36. -36. (canceled)

37. A system, comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instructions executable by a processor of a computer on a computer network for performing a plurality of steps including providing a first console class configured to instantiate a first console object,

wherein said first console class is executable by said processor on said computer network upon installation of said first console class on said computer network,

wherein said first console class defines behavior and characteristics of said first console object, and

wherein when instantiated, the first console object is operable to perform administration operations on one or more sites in a portal server framework on said computer network,

wherein each of said one or more sites comprises a collection of objects given a single identity, and

wherein said administration operations comprise;

a first administration operation to instantiate a set of site objects; and

a second administration operation to instantiate a first set of permission objects, wherein each permission object in the first set of permission objects defines a first set of users having access to, and a first set of administrative privileges associated therewith, a site object in the set of site objects created via the first administration operation;

a third administration operation to map each site object in the set of site objects to at least one of;

a domain name server (DNS) and a uniform resource locator (URL);

wherein access to the first console object is in accordance with a second set of administrative privileges granted to a second set of users defined by a first console permission object.