Patent ID: 8065741
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: initiating a session on a workstation in response to user input, wherein the session is associated with a particular user of the network computing environment; generating or synchronizing a local cache of rights information on the workstation in a network computing environment, wherein the local cache of rights information includes a subset of network computing environment rights information managed by a server in the network computing environment for applying digital rights management to a collection of data objects in a data store in the network computing environment, wherein said generating or synchronizing comprises obtaining at least some of the network computing environment rights information from the server and wherein said generating or synchronizing is performed in response to said initiating the session; during the session, receiving an operation initiated on the workstation, the operation involving multiple ones of the collection of data objects, each having separate rights information; obtaining rights information corresponding to each of the multiple ones of the collection of data objects of the operation initiated on the workstation from the local cache of rights information on the workstation even when the server is available; and allowing or disallowing the initiated operation to be performed for one or more of the data objects in accordance with the rights information obtained from the local cache.