Patent ID: 8041737
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for providing multiple levels of access within a management system to a partitioned database having a plurality of database partitions each storing a portion of the information of the database, wherein the management system has a plurality of users each having an associated user ID defined in the management system and providing the user with access to the management system, the method comprising: for each database partition, associating the user ID for one of the users of the management system with the database partition, wherein the user ID includes the authority to read and update the information in the corresponding database partition and the authority to assign authority to other user IDs to read and update the information in the database partition, wherein the authority assigned to other user IDs is a subset of the authority assigned to an owner ID; allowing the user having the user ID for the database partition to specify a user ID defined in the management system; and allowing the user having the user ID for the database partition to assign to another user ID a subset of the authority to read and update the information in the database partition, and wherein other users with user IDs for multiple database partitions may assign authority in the corresponding database partitions to a single user ID so that the user having the single user ID may simultaneously have access to the information in the multiple database partitions wherein a database partition includes data corresponding to a plurality of rental spaces within a building, the data allowing a user to graphically display at least one selected from the group consisting of: