Patent ID: 7650644
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable medium included in a storage device and having embodied thereon a computer program configured to determine whether a user is permitted to access requested attributes of a business object when executing a software application of an enterprise information technology system, the medium storing one or more code segments configured to: use a permission object to determine whether a user associated with an entry in user information is permitted to access requested attributes of a data object associated with a data object type, wherein: the entry in the user information associates the user with a user affiliation, the permission object identifies: the subset of attributes being fewer than all of the multiple attributes, wherein the permission object is configured to control access with the permission attribute when the permission attribute is included in the subset of attributes and to control access with the permission attribute when the permission attribute is not included in the subset of attributes, wherein upon determination that: