Patent ID: 7890640

Claim:
A method of operating a telecommunications network shared by two or more organizations, the network including at least a server and a plurality of client terminals, the method comprising the steps of: the two or more organizations making requests to the server via client terminals, each request to the server for an organization being initiated via a proxy communications object on one of the client terminals, the proxy object enabling comparison of the contents of the request with a definition of the rights and privileges of an organization to use the network, and, responsive to the comparison step, enabling or blocking forwarding of the request to the server; and the server transmitting to each of the plurality of client terminals at least a first component of the proxy communications object, the first proxy communications object component comprising the definition of the rights and privileges of the organization corresponding to the client terminal; the first proxy communications object component being adapted to perform a comparison of security information contained in the request with the definition of the rights and privileges of the organization and to cooperate with a second component of the proxy communications object adapted to retrieve the security information from the request and to enable or block forwarding of the request to the server.