Patent ID: 9197718
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling a user to centrally manage content hosted in a web-based collaboration environment, the web-based collaboration environment including a plurality of workspaces representing groupings of sets of content hosted in the web-based collaboration environment, the method comprising: presenting a common graphical user interface to the web-based collaboration environment, the common graphical user interface including a tab for a user view and a tab for an administrator view; enabling access, via the user view, to the user's content and content of other users within one or more of a plurality of workspaces of the collaboration environment to which the user has been granted access as a collaborator, by at least one of the other users; verifying that the user has administrator permissions to access an aggregate of the content in at least one of the plurality of workspaces of the collaboration environment and manage the other users associated with the at least one of the plurality of workspaces; in response to verifying that the user has administrator permissions, enabling access, via the administrator view, to the aggregate of the content in at least one the plurality of workspaces of the collaboration environment to which the user has administrator permissions, regardless of whether the user has been granted access as a collaborator by another user, and providing a management console in the administrator view through which the user can manage the other users associated with the at least one of the plurality of workspaces; wherein access permissions include permissions to upload, download, view, preview, and edit individual work items; wherein each work item includes a particular piece of content provided by one or more of the other users; and wherein management permissions include permissions to track and monitor other users, assign tasks to other users, review the content of other users, and change access permission levels of other users.