Patent ID: 8832856

Claim:
A method, comprising: at a content management interface layer communicatively coupled to a store of business object attachments that are semantically associated with business objects of a plurality of remote computer systems, wherein for each business object attachment the store of business object attachments includes an object identifier, an object type identifier and an originating system identifier identifying the remote computer system hosting the business object associated with the business object attachment, the content management interface layer having an application programming interface (API) configured to expose the store of business object attachments to an application external to the plurality of remote computer systems hosting the business objects, receiving via the API a request for authorization to access at least one business object attachment from the application external to the plurality of remote computer systems hosting the business objects; processing the request for authorization to semantically identify an originating computer system of a parent business object of the at least one business object attachment; sending a request for user authority checks on the parent business object of the at least one business object attachment to the originating computer system; receiving results of user authority checks on the parent business object of the at least one business object attachment by the originating computer system; and processing the received results of the user authority checks on the parent business object of the at least one business object attachment by the originating computer system.