Patent ID: 6892201

Claim:
A method of controlling access to content, comprising: receiving a request from a computing device to perform a function on a portion of a web page; processing access rights tags in source code of the portion of the web page to determine allowable access to the content in the portion of the web page, wherein processing the access rights tags in the web page to determine allowable access to the content includes determining the allowable access based on a combination of the access rights tags and a user access level associated with a user of the computing device; and controlling access, by the computing device, to the content based on the allowable access determined from access rights tags in the source code of the portion of the web page, wherein a plurality of functions may be performed on the portion of the web page, and wherein the access rights tags provide information regarding subsets of the plurality of functions that may be performed for each defined user access level, and wherein determining the allowable access based on a combination of the access rights tags and a user access level includes determining if the request to perform a function on a file requests a function that is within a subset of functions associated with the user access level of the user of the computing device.