Patent ID: 9613222
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by an enterprise digital rights management (eDRM) device, user data and access rights data corresponding to a user group from an authorizer for assigning one or more specific access rights to at least one user of the user group, wherein the authorizer is at least one user having an authority to assign access rights from amongst a plurality of users, and wherein the one or more specific rights are defined for each user from the plurality of user such that the each user access is limited within an enterprise; creating, by the eDRM device, a user template based on the user data and the access rights data received from the authorizer, the user template comprises one or more specific access rights associated with the at least one user of the user group, the one or more specific access rights being obtained from the access rights data, sending the created user template to a central repository associated with an eDRM server connected to a plurality of eDRM devices including the eDRM device that created the user template for storing the created user template in the central repository, wherein the user template being accessible by each of the plurality of eDRM devices; and authorizing, by at least one of the plurality of eDRM devices, the at least one user of the user group to access each of a plurality of enterprise documents based on the one or more access rights in the user template selected from a plurality of user templates stored in the central repository, wherein the user template is applied to access the enterprise document based on associated one or more specific access rights, and wherein the authorizing comprises applying the user template to each of the plurality of enterprise documents.