SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PUBLICLY PROVIDING WEB CONTENT OF A TENANT USING A MULTI-TENANT ON-DEMAND DATABASE SERVICE

• US 20130239228A1
• Filed: 04/29/2013
• Published: 09/12/2013
• 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, Brooks, David, Fry, Benjamin, Scott, Kenneth Douglas
• Granted Patent: US 9,219,775 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/27
• 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 method, comprising:

receiving information from a tenant of a multi-tenant on-demand database service; and

publicly providing web content to non-tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service using the multi-tenant on-demand database service, based on the information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information includes security settings for the web content.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the security settings includes rules for at least one of database tables that are allowed to be publicly accessed by the non-tenants, a level of access to the database tables by the non-tenants, fields of the database tables that are allowed to be publicly accessed by the non-tenants, and records of the database tables that are allowed to be publicly accessed by the non-tenants,

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the information includes the web content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is received by the multi-tenant on-demand database service.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is received utilizing a graphical user interface of the multi-tenant on-demand database service.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the web content includes a website.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the web content includes a web service.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the web content is publicly provided to one of the non-tenants in response to receipt of a request by the multi-tenant on-demand database service for the web content from the one of the non-tenants.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein security settings for the web content and limits placed on the web content are identified using an identification of the tenant.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the web content is publicly provided to the one of the non-tenants based on the identified security settings and the identified limits.

12. A computer program product embodied on a tangible computer readable medium, comprising;

computer code for receiving information from a tenant of a multi-tenant on-demand database service; and

computer code for publicly providing web content to non-tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service using the multi-tenant on-demand database service, based on the information.

13. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor for receiving information from a tenant of a multi-tenant on-demand database service, and publicly providing web content to non-tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service using the multi-tenant on-demand database service, based on the information.