Patent ID: 8275356

Claim:
A method for managing user access from a wireless mobile device to a plurality of network resources comprising documents and files within an enterprise network, wherein the enterprise network comprises a security infrastructure for managing internal user access from within the enterprise network according to an internal access policy, and wherein for access from a wireless mobile user device the method comprises the steps of: determining group membership of a user based on a user ID and attributes of the user, each group having associated therewith a set of resources and associated operations for members of the group; determining access rules for the user based on each group membership of the user; generating a list of accessible resources and associated operations for the user based on said access rules; and making said list available to a subsequent process for performing an operation on an accessible resource in accordance with said access rules comprising one or more of displaying and otherwise interfacing said resource to the user for one or more of read, write, execute, modify, delete, email, download, and synchronize operations.