Patent ID: 8805884

Claim:
An automatic resource ownership assignment system, said system comprising at least one processor comprising: resource ownership indicators definition functionality operative to allow an operator of said system to define resource ownership indicators; automatic resource ownership recommendation functionality operative to provide, to at least one user of said system, a recommendation to assign ownership of at least one resource to a potential owner, based on said resource ownership indicators, said ownership of at least one resource comprising responsibility for managing access permissions to said resource; and automatic resource ownership assignment functionality which: responsive to predetermined at least partial approval of said at least one recommendation by said at least one user and approval of said at least one recommendation by said potential owner, is operative to automatically assign ownership of said at least one resource to said potential owner; and responsive to rejection of said at least one recommendation by said potential owner, and responsive to receiving an alternative recommendation from said potential owner to assign ownership of said at least one resource to an alternative owner, is operative to automatically assign ownership of said at least one resource to said alternative owner.