Patent ID: 7853882

Claim:
A method for selectively enabling portlets comprising: providing a portal including a plurality of portlets, wherein each portlet has an associated portlet security level that indicates a maximum sensitivity level of information able to be presented in the portlet; determining a portlet enablement event associated with a set of at least one of the plurality of portlets, wherein said set is less than a total number of portlets in the plurality of portlets, wherein said determined set corresponds to the portlet security levels of the portlets; presenting the portal, including the plurality of portlets, wherein each portlet comprises portlet specific graphically rendered enablement selectors, wherein said enablement selectors comprise a logout selector, a login portlet selector, a login all currently disabled or restricted portlet selector; responsive to the portlet enablement event, changing portlet enablement states of each portlet in the set without changing portlet enablement states of portlets in the plurality that are not part of the set, wherein at least one of the portlets of the portal includes customized data for a user, and wherein said enablement selections permit a user to dynamically adjust an enablement state of that portlet while interacting with the portal, said portlet enablement states comprising an enabled state, a disabled state, and an enabled in an access restricted state, and wherein the providing, determining, presenting, and changing of the method are performed by a processor of a machine responsive to executing computer-readable instructions of a computer program product that is digitally encoded in a tangible storage medium.