Patent ID: 8904551
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system for controlling access to files, the computer system comprising: a processor; a computer-readable memory; a computer-readable storage device; first program instructions for receiving classifications of two or more files into a same category and storing the classifications of the two or more files, wherein the category comprises one of: product-line identifier, geographic location, customer-account identifier, network type, server-platform type, and server operating status; second program instructions for receiving a configuration of an access-control list to grant access to one or more users to the two or more files based on the category; third program instructions for, in response to a request for access by a user for one file of the two or more files, the request specifying the one file but not the category of the one file, identifying, by one or more processors, the category of the one file based on the stored classification of the one file, and checking the access-control list to determine that the user is authorized to access the category, and, in response, granting, by the one or more processors, the user access to the one file, and fourth program instructions for storing the access-control list in an information repository, wherein the first program instructions, the second program instructions, and the third program instructions, and the fourth program instructions are stored on the computer-readable storage device for execution by the processor via the computer-readable memory.