Content Hierarchy
OwnerPaul V. Morinvilleinventor
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Abstract
Systems and methods for automating and increasing the efficiency of business processes using a hierarchical content structure. In one embodiment, A method comprises providing a plurality of business information items, defining a hierarchical content structure of the business information items, associating access rights for a first role with a first one of the business information items, and automatically enabling access by positions associated with the first role to the first one of the business information items and business information items below the first one of the business information items in the hierarchical content structure.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- providing a plurality of business information items;
- defining a hierarchical content structure of the business information items;
- associating access rights for a first role with a first one of the business information items;
- automatically enabling access by positions associated with the first role to the first one of the business information items and business information items below the first one of the business information items in the hierarchical content structure.
A software program product comprising one or more program instructions contained in a computer-readable medium and executable by a computer system to perform the method including:
- defining a hierarchical organizational structure of positions within an organization;
- associating one of a plurality of roles with each of the positions;
- identifying selected data;
- a first position within the hierarchical organizational structure associating one or more access rules with the selected data, wherein the access rules are applicable to a first subset of the roles;
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- automatically associating the one or more access rules with the selected data for all positions that are subordinate to the first position within the hierarchical organizational structure and that are associated with the first subset of roles.
A system comprising:
- a business processor engine;
- one or more data sources configured to store business information items and a hierarchical content structure of the business information items;
- wherein the business processor engine is configured to associate access rights for a first role with a first one of the business information items;
- wherein the business processor engine is configured to automatically enable access by positions associated with the first role to the first one of the business information items and business information items below the first one of the business information items in the hierarchical content structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.