System and method of inter-account resource access management
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsIra C. Stevens, III, Nicholas H. Katis
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Abstract
An improved method and system of enabling the owner of an account associated with a resource to allow a second user to gain access to the resource or a particular aspect of the resource is disclosed. Solutions and implementations disclosed provide an easily manageable mechanism for allowing access to a resource, without the need for a complex administrator-based access control system. Instead, a negotiated account to account resource access arrangement is established between the first user's account and the second user's account to share some or all of the actions available to the first user for the resource.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- receiving a request from a first user to perform at least one of accessing a resource or performing a task on the resource, the first user being associated with a first user account;
- upon receiving the request from the first user, determining if the first user has permission to access the resource or perform the task on the resource by examining an attribute of a delegate associated with the first user account;
- upon determining that the first user account has permission to access the resource or perform the task on the resource, creating a connection between the delegate and the resource;
- and
- performing the at least one of accessing the resource or performing the task on the resource via the connection,
- wherein:
- the delegate is a resource access arrangement established between the first user account and a second user account associated with a second user, and
- the first user account is a borrower account and the second user account is an owner account, the owner account being associated with the resource and enabling the first user account to access the resource.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- a wireless communication module communicatively coupled to the processor;
- and
- a memory, communicatively coupled to the processor on which are stored instructions that when executed cause the processor to:
- receive a request from a first user to perform at least one of accessing a resource or performing a task on the resource, the first user being associated with a first user account;
- upon receiving the request from the first user, determine if the first user has permission to access the resource or perform the task on the resource by examining an attribute of a delegate associated with the first user account;
- upon determining that the first user account has permission to access the resource or perform the task on the resource, create a connection between the delegate and the resource;
- an
- perform the at least one of accessing the resource or performing the task on the resource via the connection,
- wherein:
- the delegate is a resource access arrangement established between the first user account and a second user account associated with a second user, and
- the first user account is a borrower account and the second user account is an owner account, the owner account being associated with the resource and enabling the first user account to access the resource.
At least one non-transitory computer readable medium on which are stored instructions comprising instructions that when executed cause a programmable device to:
- receive a request from a first user to perform at least one of accessing a resource or performing a task on the resource, the first user being associated with a first user account;
- upon receiving the request from the first user, determine if the first user has permission to access the resource or perform the task on the resource by examining an attribute of a delegate associated with the first user account;
- upon determining that the first user account has permission to access the resource or perform the task on the resource, create a connection between the delegate and the resource;
- and
- performing the at least one of accessing the resource or performing the task on the resource via the connection,
- wherein:
- the delegate is a resource access arrangement established between the first user account and a second user account associated with a second user, and
- the first user account is a borrower account and the second user account is an owner account, the owner account being associated with the resource and enabling the first user account to access the resource.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.