Patent ID: 9015196
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for sharing data among a set of users of an enterprise resource management architecture, the set of users comprising a plurality of user subsets, the method comprising: providing a database comprising a plurality of data records, each data record of the plurality of data records comprising a data set relating to at least one user subset of the plurality user subsets, the data set comprising a plurality of data subsets, each data subset of the plurality of data subsets being accessible to at least one user subset of the plurality of user subsets; providing a permission matrix defining, for each user of the set of users, first permissions and second permissions, the first permissions defining, for each user subset of the plurality of user subsets, a corresponding data subset of the plurality of data subsets, to which the subset of users has access to view, the second permissions defining, for each user subset of the plurality of user subsets, a corresponding data subset of the plurality of data subsets, to which the subset of users has access to update, the at least one user subset having control of less than all of the first permissions, the second permissions, or combinations thereof; receiving, via a client, a request for a first data record of the plurality of data records, the first data record comprising a data set relating to a first user of the set of users; identifying a source of the request; determining, using the permission matrix, at least a portion of the first data record accessible to the identified source of the request; and transmitting the portion of the first data record to the identified source based on the determination, wherein the first data record comprises a first data subset and a second data subset of the plurality of data subsets, the first data subset being about the first user and being generated by the first user, the second data subset being about the first user and being generated by a second user of the set of users, and wherein the determined portion of the first data record is all of the first data subset and less than all of the second data subset when the identified source is the first user.