Cool ice data wizard security service
AssigneeUnisys Corporation
InventorsThomas N. Turba, J. Mark Brassil
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Abstract
An apparatus for and method of utilizing an internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to request analysis of data from an existing proprietary data base management system having a dialog-based request format. The user has an assigned security profile specifying the data base management system access privileges permitted. This security profile may be readily changed by a system administrator. The administrator selects the user for whom the security profile is to be changed from a menu. The security profile change is specified on an HTML page and forwarded to the data wizard security service. This service generates script for accomplishing the specified change.
Claims20
In a data processing system having a user terminal with a first security profile wherein said user terminal generates a service request for access to a data base management system responsively coupled to said user terminal via a publically accessible digital data communication network, the improvement comprising:
- a security service located within said data base management system which is capable of changing said first security profile of said user terminal to a second security profile using a security data wizard.
An apparatus comprising:
- a. a user terminal having a first security profile;
- b. a data base management system responsively coupled to said user terminal via a publically accessible digital data communication network;
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- c. a security service responsively coupled to said user terminal and said data base management system which converts said first security profile of said user terminal to a second security profile using a data wizard.
A method of modifying a security profile of a user terminal coupled via a publically accessible digital data network to access a remote data base management system having a data base comprising:
- a. specifying a desired security profile change at an administrator terminal;
- b. transferring said specified desired security profile change from said administrator terminal to a data wizard security service;
- c. generating script within said data wizard security service corresponding to said desired security profile change;
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- d. executing said script to make said desired security profile change utilizing said script.
An apparatus comprising:
- a. means having a first security profile for permitting a user to request service from a digital data base management system;
- b. means responsively coupled to said permitting means via a publically accessible digital data communication network for honoring said service request;
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- c. means responsively coupled to said honoring means and said permitting means for changing said first security profile to a second security profile via a data wizard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.