Patent ID: 6978381
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a data processing system to control user access to a plurality of resources, said method including the steps of editing a list of resources, editing a list of access profiles, each said access profile in said list of access profiles containing a designation of at least one of said resources listed in said list of resources, and editing a list of users to add or delete, for a user of said list of users, an access profile designation for an access profile containing said designation of said at least one said resource, said list of users including, for each listed user, a security profile including a userID by which the user can be authenticated for one or more access profiles, wherein a level of said list of access profiles is logically between levels of said list of users and said list of resources in an architecture comprising said list of users, said list of access profiles and said list of resources, respectively.