Patent ID: 8065425

Claim:
A method of operating a telecommunications network for shared use by at least two user sets, the network comprising at least one server and a plurality of clients, each client being associated with one of the user sets, the method comprising: generating a privilege definition object for each user set, the privilege definition object defining at least one network use privilege of its associated user set; distributing, from the server to at least one client associated with a user set, at least one component of a proxy communications object, each distributed proxy communications object inheriting from the privilege definition object, a definition of the at least one network use privilege of the user set associated with the client; receiving, at the proxy communications object, a request by a member of the user set to use the network; comparing, by the proxy communications object, content of the request with the definition of at least one network use privilege of the user set associated with the client; and determining, by the proxy communications object, whether to enable or block forwarding of the request to the server based on results of the comparison.