Patent ID: 8448225
Filing Date: 2013-05-21
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A login process apparatus comprising: a login process section configured to execute a login process on an application program and an application database used by the application program, where the application database has: an authority group information database in which authority group information is registered, the authority group information including a combination of utilization authorities in the application program defined as an authority group without information which specifies a user and indicating a set of specified authorities and relating to functions and resources available upon authentication, a user information database in which user information corresponding to user management information converted into a format available in the application program is registered, the user management information being acquired from an external system connected to the login process apparatus and holding the user management information, the external system executing user management independent of the login process apparatus, a connection and authentication method information database in which a connection method and an authentication method for the external system are defined, an authority conversion database in which authority conversion information required to map authority-related items of the user management information acquired from the external system to the authority group is defined, a user information acquisition section configured to acquire the user management information from the external system based on the connection and authentication method information, and a user information conversion process section configured to convert the acquired user management information into the format of the user management information which is available in the application program, wherein the login process apparatus further comprises a login screen process section configured to controllably display a login screen on a user terminal, wherein the user information comprises at least a registration source ID identifying a registration source system in which the user information is registered, and the authority group, and a single piece of user information is uniquely identified based on a combination of the registration source ID and a user ID, wherein the user information conversion process section executes an authority information conversion process of using the authority conversion information to convert registration source authority information acquired from the user management information in the registration source into an authority group in the login process apparatus, and wherein the user information conversion process section acquires, in the authority conversion information, before updating of the authority group in the user information, the authority group with a record including the registration source ID matching the user's registration source ID and the registration source authority information matching the authority in the acquired data item so that the authority group is used as information required to update the authority group in the user information.