Patent ID: 8744885
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method to manage activities and resources of an organization on a rule-based platform, including allowing a user to access, view, and modify organizational resources, the organizational resources including an organizational task, a team, individual users, and/or a direct report, the method of managing based on an evaluation of attributes of at least the organizational resource by at least one rule controlling the activity to determine if the user is allowed to perform the activity, the method comprising: storing a representation of at least one organization's structure in memory, the representation including layers of separate but integrated authority structures including identifying, by a processor, at least the attributes evaluated by the at least one rule of the activity; evaluating, by the processor, the identified attributes, according to the at least one rule of the activity, to determine if the activity is allowed by the user; granting, by the processor, authority to perform the activity to the user according to the at least one rule evaluating the attributes of at least the resource the user is attempting to interact with to determine if the requested activity is allowed by the user based at least on a relationship of the user to the respective task, team, individual user and/or direct report in the integrated authority structure of the rule based platform as defined by the attributes of the respective task, team, individual user and/or direct report; and executing, by the processor, the allowed requested activity according to authority granted to the user.