Patent ID: 7392533
Filing Date: 2008-06-24
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer system comprising a computer storage medium having a plurality of computer software components embodied thereon for managing access to a componentized electronic document via a network, the system comprising: an access profile module hosted in a server machine and configured to track a user's permissions to individual components of a componentized electronic document, wherein the user may be granted different permissions to different components; an access management engine hosted in a server, the access management engine configured to interact with the access profile module to authenticate a request received from the user at a client machine for access to individual document components, the access management engine further configured to grant a user different levels of editing access to different components, wherein editing access levels control the user's ability to change the component; and an interface to a content database, the access management engine configured to communicate with the interface to the content database to retrieve the components authenticated by the access management engine and to transmit the components to the user at the client machine.