Facilitating access to resource(s) identified by reference(s) in electronic communications
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJudith H. Bank, Liam Harpur, Ruthie D. Lyle, Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Lin Sun
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Abstract
A technique for using a reference to identify permissions required to access a resource. One or more processors detect a reference in an electronic communication. The reference points to a resource stored in storage of a data processing system. The one or more processors identify a set of permissions required to access the resource pointed to by the reference in the electronic communication. The one or more processors then perform a set of access-oriented actions associated with the set of permissions.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a device of a first user, an electronic communication including first content, with the first content including a reference pointing to second content which is not part of the first content;
- determining, by the device of the first user, that access permissions are required to use the second link to access the second content;
- responsive to the determination that access permissions are required, fetching, by the device of the first user, a first access permission specific to the first user that includes identification data belonging to the first user;
- and
- automatically sending, by the device of the first user, to a device that controls access to the second content, a request for the first user to access the second content, with the request including the first access permission specific to the first user.
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium and program instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium, the program instructions comprising:
- program instruction to receive, by a device of a first user, an electronic communication including first content, with the first content including a reference pointing to second content which is not part of the first content;
- program instructions to determine, by the first device of the user, that access permissions are required to use the second link to access the second content;
- and
- program instructions to, responsive to the determination that access permissions are required, fetch, by the device of the first user, a first access permission specific to the first user that includes identification data belonging to the first user;
- and
- program instructions to automatically send, by the device of the first user, to a device that controls to access to the second content, with the request including the first access permission specific to the first user.
A computer system comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
- one or more computer readable storage media;
- program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
- program instruction to receive, by a device of a first user, an electronic communication including first content, with the first content including a reference pointing to second content which is not part of the first content;
- program instructions to determine, by the first device of the user, that access permissions are required to use the second link to access the second content;
- and
- program instructions to, responsive to the determination that access permissions are required, fetch, by the device of the first user, a first access permission specific to the first user that includes identification data belonging to the first user;
- and
- program instructions to automatically send, by the device of the first user, to a device that controls to access to the second content, with the request including the first access permission specific to the first user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.