Patent ID: 8689353

Claim:
An access rights management system for data of one or more buildings, the system comprising: a first server, the first server being for a building authorization service, the first server comprising an authorization databank for storing respective user-specific access rights of users to the one or more buildings; and a second server, the second server being for a communications release service, the second server comprising an authentication databank, the authentication databank storing a list of the users and of which of the one or more buildings the users have the respective user-specific access rights for, the second server being programmed to allow a selected user to communicate with the one or more buildings by enabling the selected user to access the first server according to the list stored in the authentication databank, and the first server being programmed to grant one or more of the user-specific access rights for the selected user according to the user-specific access rights stored in the authorization databank, and enabling a separation of the authentication and the authorization by the first and second servers.