Method for data access control of third parties in a multitenant system

• US 9,160,747 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2013
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Basware Corporation (Basware Oyj)
• Original Assignee: Basware Corporation (Basware Oyj)
• Inventors: Hotti, Timo
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, CHAU D
• Application Number:
  US13/926,095
• Publication Number:
  US 20140013398A1
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 726/4
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources

Abstract

The invention discloses, inter alia, a computer executable method for controlling user'"'"'s access to transaction data in the context of a service in a multitenant data management system comprising data of a first organization, a second organization providing at least one service, at least one user representing the second organization, and a transaction associable by its content with the first organization. The method comprises steps for receiving a request for a user representing the second organization to access the transaction associable with the first organization in the context of a service, verifying the secondary stakeholder status of the second organization regarding the transaction, verifying the validity of a chain of trust between the user of the request and the second organization in the context, and conditional to the validity of the secondary stakeholder status and the chain of trust, authorizing the user representing the second organization to access the transaction in the context of the service.

Claims

1. A computer executable method for controlling user access to transaction data in the context of a service in a multitenant data management system comprising data of:

a first organization,

a second organization providing at least one service,

at least one user representing the second organization, and

a transaction associable by its content with the first organization, wherein the method comprises steps;

receiving a request from at least one user representing the second organization to access the transaction associable with the first organization in the context of a service,

verifying a secondary stakeholder status of the second organization regarding the transaction,

verifying the validity of a chain of trust between the at least one user representing the second organization and the second organization in the context, and

conditional to the validity of the secondary stakeholder status and the chain of trust, authorizing the at least one user representing the second organization to access the transaction in the context of the service,

wherein the step of verifying the secondary stakeholder status of the second organization comprises verifying a chain of trust between at least one user representing the first organization and the at least one user representing the second organization.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the authorization is further conditional to existence of a separate permission object that links the at least one user representing the second organization with the transaction.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the validity of the chain of trust is verified for the context specified in the request.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the context data is adapted to be maintainable by the multitenant data management system for a plurality of services.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the context is adapted to be associated with at least one service that is executable upon the granted access permission.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the specified context limits the at least one user representing the second organization'"'"'s access to the data of the transaction.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of creating a log entry comprising information about the at least one user representing the second organization whose trust was involved in the verified chain of trust.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the method comprises the step of granting access rights to the log entry to the at least one user representing the second organization, whose trust was involved in the verified chain of trust.

9. A computer arrangement for controlling user access to transaction data in the context of a service in a multitenant data management system comprising data of:

a first organization,

a second organization providing at least one service,

at least one user representing the second organization, and

a transaction associable by its content with the first organization, wherein the arrangement is configured to;

receive a request from at least one user representing the second organization to access the transaction associable with the first organization in the context of a service,

verify a secondary stakeholder status of the second organization regarding the transaction,

verify the validity of a chain of trust between the at least one user representing the second organization and the second organization in the context, and

conditional to the validity of the secondary stakeholder status and the chain of trust, authorize the at least one user representing the second organization to access the transaction in the context of the service,

wherein the arrangement of verifying the secondary stakeholder status of the second organization comprises verifying a chain of trust between at least one user representing the first organization and the at least one user representing the second organization.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium for controlling user access to transaction data in the context of a service in a multitenant data management system comprising data of:

a first organization,

a second organization providing at least one service,

at least one user representing the second organization, and

a transaction associable by its content with the first organization, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium comprises computer executable instructions for;

receiving a request from at least one user representing the second organization to access the transaction associable with the first organization in the context of a service,

verifying a secondary stakeholder status of the second organization regarding the transaction,

verifying the validity of a chain of trust between the at least one user representing the second organization and the second organization in the context, and

conditional to the validity of the secondary stakeholder status and the chain of trust, authorizing the at least one user representing the second organization to access the transaction in the context of the service,

wherein the instruction of verifying the secondary stakeholder status of the second organization comprises verifying a chain of trust between at least one user representing the first organization and the at least one user representing the second organization.