Hierarchical display of project information in a collaboration environment
AssigneeEMC Corporation
InventorsHarish Sidenur, Aniruddha Rao
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Abstract
Providing access to project information in a virtual collaboration environment is disclosed. A credential information associated with a user of the virtual collaboration environment is received. It is determined, based at least in part on the credential information, which portion or portions of a hierarchical set of project information the user is entitled to receive. A hierarchical display that includes the portion or portions of the hierarchical set of project information that it is determined the user is entitled to receive is provided to the user via the virtual collaboration environment.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving a credential information associated with a user of a virtual collaboration environment via a request from a web application, wherein the virtual collaboration environment comprises a hierarchical set of project information stored by a content management system;
- determining a level of a user based at least in part on the credential information;
- returning a web service response to provide the user within the virtual collaboration environment access to a hierarchical display, wherein the hierarchical display includes a portion of the hierarchical set of project information that it is determined the user is entitled to receive based on the level of the user.
A system configured to provide a virtual collaboration environment, comprising:
- a communication interface configured to a credential information associated with a user of a virtual collaboration environment via a request from a web application, wherein the virtual collaboration environment comprises a hierarchical set of project information stored by a content management system;
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- a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to:
- determine a level of a user based at least in part on the credential information;
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- return a web service response to provide the user within the virtual collaboration environment access to a hierarchical display, wherein the hierarchical display includes a is portion of the hierarchical set of project information that it is determined the user is entitled to receive based on the level of the user.
A computer program product for providing access to project information in a virtual collaboration environment, the computer program product being embodied in a computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:
- receiving a credential information associated with a user of a virtual collaboration environment via a request from a web application, wherein the virtual collaboration environment comprises a hierarchical set of project information stored by a content management system;
- determining a level of a user based at least in part on the credential information;
- returning a web service response to provide the user within the virtual collaboration environment access to a hierarchical display, wherein the hierarchical display includes a portion of the hierarchical set of project information that it is determined the user is entitled to receive based on the level of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.