Patent ID: 8881240

Claim:
A computer implemented method for administering access to one or more documents in accordance with an access rights policy, comprising: responsive to an initial attempt, by a user of a remote computerized device, to access a document containing information subject to restrictions on access for a finite time period, determining whether the time period has expired; if the finite time period has expired, granting access for the user to view the document at the remote computerized device; and if the time period has not yet expired, treating the user initially as an unprovisioned user by prompting the user to enter an email address; determining whether a domain specified in the entered email address corresponds to a group of users entitled to access the document from a remote computerized device; and if the domain specified does correspond to a group of users entitled to access the document from a remote computerized device, granting access for the user to view the document at the remote computerized device; and thereafter treating the user as a provisioned user by automatically granting the user, without prompting, subsequent access to the document and any other document subject to restrictions on access according to the access rights policy.