Patent ID: 8893228
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for indicating data access privilege status for data in an enterprise, the method comprising: defining user groups offering common rights of access to a plurality of file servers, said file servers being organized as a hierarchy of storage elements having ancestors, said storage elements comprising first storage elements that have only inherited access permissions that are inherited from one of said ancestors thereof, and second storage elements that have at least non-inherited access permissions; maintaining a storage element permissions database containing only said non-inherited access permissions for said second storage elements, and an inheritance indicator employing at least partially identical permission profiles that identifies other said second storage elements that are ancestral thereto in said hierarchy thereby to reduce data storage requirements; and consulting said storage element permissions database to ascertain a storage element-oriented set of said user groups that provide said common rights of access to selected ones of said storage elements.