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US 11,444,900 B2Granted
Chat room access control
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsJohn Costello, Andrew Henderson, Robert Headon
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a request to join an electronic chat room is received from a requester. A selection of an access control level for the requester is received via a user interface in order to grant the requester access to the electronic chat room according to a condition for granting access. The user interface is used to assign a selected access control level to the requester, thereupon granting access to the requester. The requester's access to content available in the electronic chat room being limited based on the selected access control level. Related methods, apparatus, and systems are also described.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- enabling a moderator to control access of a user to content of an electronic chat room via a plurality of access levels, wherein the plurality of access levels is associated with a plurality of conditions for granting access, the plurality of conditions including a veto condition, a majority condition, and a moderator approval condition;
- receiving a selection, by the moderator, of one of the plurality of access levels, the one of the plurality of access levels defining access rights to the content based on a certain date that the content is posted in the electronic chat room and one or more domains of users in attempting to access the content;
- assigning the one of the plurality of access levels to the user;
- controlling the access of the user to the content according to the one of the plurality of access levels assigned to the user by limiting the access of the user to the content based on the certain date that the content is posted in the electronic chat room and a domain of the user;
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- limiting the access to at least one of messages or files posted in the electronic chat room after the certain date and/or between a first date and a second date.
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A user interface system for controlling access to a chat room, the user interface system comprising:
- a computer-readable memory with software which, when executed, cause the user interface system to:
- enable a moderator to control access of a user to content of an electronic chat room via a plurality of access levels, wherein the plurality of access levels is associated with a plurality of conditions for granting access, the plurality of conditions including a veto condition, a majority condition, and a moderator approval condition;
- receive a selection, by the moderator, of one of the plurality of access levels, the one of the plurality of access levels defining access rights to the content based on a certain date that the content is posted in the electronic chat room and one or more domains of users in attempting to access the content;
- assign the one of the plurality of access levels to the user;
- control the access of the user to the content according to the one of the plurality of access levels assigned to the user by limiting the access of the user to the content based on the certain date that the content is posted in the electronic chat room and a domain of the user;
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- limit the access to at least one of messages or files posted in the electronic chat room after the certain date and/or between a first date and a second date.
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A method comprising:
- enabling a moderator to control access of a user to content of an electronic chat room via a plurality of access levels, wherein the plurality of access levels is associated with a plurality of conditions for granting access, the plurality of conditions including a veto condition, a majority condition, and a moderator approval condition;
- receiving a selection, by the moderator, of one of the plurality of access levels, the one of the plurality of access levels defining access rights to the content based on a certain date that the content is posted in the electronic chat room and one or more domains of users in attempting to access the content;
- assigning the one of the plurality of access levels to the user;
- controlling the access of the user to the content according to the one of the plurality of access levels assigned to the user by limiting the access of the user to the content based on the certain date that the content is posted in the electronic chat room and a domain of the user;
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- limiting the access to the content available in the electronic chat room comprises allowing full access to one of messages or files available in the electronic chat room.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.