Patent ID: 9697207
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer program product for identifying content under access control, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising: receiving, from a computing device connected to a computer system, a search query from a first user; performing, based on the search query, a search on the computer system using a superuser account with access to all content stored on the computer system, the content including documents, spreadsheets, images, and video; identifying a set of results from the content stored on the computer system based on the search, the set of results including a first subset of results, the first subset of results not accessible to the first user due to access control; providing a list of results from the set of results to the first user, the list excluding the first subset of results, the first subset of results not provided to the first user; identifying, without input from the first user, a target result from the first subset of results based on the target result being produced as an inaccessible result in a specified number of searches with at least a minimum relevance value and within a specified period of time; identifying an owner with permission to modify access control for the target result; determining the owner is associated with the user in a social network; and providing, in response to the determining the owner is associated with the user in the social network, a notification to the owner through a user interface, the notification indicating that the target result is not accessible to the first user, the notification including information about the first user, the notification further including search statistics regarding the target result, the search statistics including a number of users that have performed a search that produced the target result and did not have access to the target result, the user interface allowing the owner to modify the access control for the target result, the user interface further allowing the owner to notify the first user that the owner has permission to modify the access control for the target result.