Patent ID: 6430549
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
In a computer system capable of running at least one application and maintaining a database, each application having at least one feature, a method for defining a user's access to said at least one feature comprising the steps of:assigning at least two attributes to said user, one of the attributes relating to the ability to access data and one of the attributes relating to the ability to manipulate accessed data; storing said at least two attributes in a first table in said database; running an application having at least two features in said computer system, one of the features relating to the ability to access data and one of the features relating to the ability to manipulate accessed data; retrieving from said first table two or more of said at least two attributes assigned to the user, one of the retrieved attributes relating to the ability to access data and one of the retrieved attributes relating to the ability to manipulate accessed data; and enforcing the retrieved attributes, whereby the user's access to data and ability to manipulate accessed data is defined in accordance with the retrieved attributes.