Patent ID: 9189563
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for defining rules associated with a performance of an application at different hierarchical levels by different users, comprising: determining a hierarchical level of a user authorized to make changes to the rules; displaying the rules including rules from the determined hierarchical level and inherited rules from hierarchical levels above the determined hierarchical level, wherein rules created at a hierarchical level above the determined hierarchical level are automatically inherited by lower hierarchical levels in a same branch of hierarchy; distinguishing the inherited rules from the rules from the determined hierarchical level within a display, wherein distinguishing the inherited rules comprises displaying an indicator that indicates a level where an inherited rule was created; preventing editing and deleting of the inherited rules; receiving a change to the displayed rules; and when the determined hierarchical level is above a lowest level hierarchical level, automatically providing the change to each lower hierarchical level such that when the rules are displayed at each of the lower hierarchical levels the change made to the displayed rules is shown.