Patent ID: 6859805

Claim:
A method of viewing a report having a security tag associated with pages in the report such that a user can only view data authorized to be shown to the user, the method comprising: retrieving a report having a superset of pages, one or more pages from the superset of pages having a security tag associated therewith such that a plurality of security tags are associated with the superset of pages of the report; obtaining a list of security identifiers associated with the user; comparing the list of security identifiers associated with the user with the plurality of security tags associated with the superset of pages of the report; deriving a subset of pages from the superset of pages based on the comparison such that the subset of pages only contains data that the user is authorized to view; presenting the subset of pages as a report to the user; and renumbering pages in the subset of pages such that the subset of pages are renumbered consecutively such that the report presented to the user appears to be complete without indicating that one or more of the superset of pages of the report are not presented to the user.