Patent ID: 7058630
Filing Date: 2006-06-06
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling access to a database, comprising: providing a database; providing an access control manager application including a plurality of access control documents for selectively changing and later restoring security access levels to said database; providing an access control agent specific to a given database; providing a first of said access control documents for said given database specifying a Btart time and a start access control list; providing a second of said access control documents for said given database specifying an end time and an end access control list; scheduling said access control agent to permit access to said database after said start time by reference to said start access control list and after said end time by reference to said end access control list; operation said agent responsive to said access control documents to modify said access control list for controlling processing agent and user access to database documents and data elements within said database documents by automatically enforcing a strict window of read-only end-user access to said database while selected agents are executing; said access control documents further specifying a server, an address of a database, action indicia, days selected indicia, time indicia, threshold indicia, affected access control list entries, and new access specifications and new roles specifications corresponding to said affected access control list entries; and operating said agent to identify any database access control documents, and for each said database access control document found: