Patent ID: 8484703

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of delegating administrative rights to a third party comprising: receiving, from a first computing device, a request, by a first end user associated with a first account of a network access control application, to delegate administrative rights for the first account of the network access control application to a third party end user, wherein the request identifies the third party end user, and the access control application monitors violations of a network access policy by a particular set of end users of at least one network-enabled application, the particular set of end users associated with the first account, wherein the third party end user is outside the particular set of end users associated with the first account; receiving a selection, specified by the first end-user, of particular administrative rights in the network access control application to delegate to the third party end user; causing an invitation to be sent to the third party end user for acceptance by the third party end user of the delegation of the particular administrative rights for the first account; and providing the third party end user the particular administrative rights for the first account of the access control application.