Patent ID: 8606656

Claim:
A method for a computing system to facilitate access by a user to restricted functionality, the method comprising: under control of an executing first presentation software application on a configured computing system, obtaining a group of information related to a first subject area and presenting the group of information to the user of the computing system via a displayed user interface of the first presentation software application, the presented information being associated with an organization; and under control of an executing second extension application for the first presentation software application on the configured computing system, automatically identifying the first subject area of the presented group of information; determining that the user belongs to a first group of users who are authorized to obtain access to one or more types of restricted functionality corresponding to the first subject area based at least in part on the first group of users being affiliated with the organization in a predefined manner, the one or more types of restricted functionality being provided by the organization in a restricted manner to users of the first group and not being available to other users who are not part of the first group; and based at least in part on the determining, temporarily modifying one or more interactions that are available for selection by the user corresponding to the presented group of information, to enable the user to obtain access to the one or more types of restricted functionality via the modified available interactions, the temporary modifying including temporarily adding one or more user-selectable options that the user may select via the presented group of information in order to obtain the access to the one or more types of restricted functionality from the organization in the restricted manner.