US 2019/0171837 A1 · MULTI-USER ACCESS CONTROLS IN ELECTRONIC SIMULTANEOUSLY EDITABLE DOCUMENT EDITOR

Abstract

A system with an interactive user interface for a plurality of users to author an electronic document simultaneously is described. The system displays visual feedback on the interface to prevent the users from interfering with one another. The system displays data from a remote database linked into the document based on unique identifiers. The data is displayed as an “artifact.” The system monitors and tracks each user's access category level, as well as the access category level of each piece of data pulled from the remote database. The system compares a user's category level to the data from the database to make visible only the portions of the document the user has the appropriate access category level to view and/or modify. The portions of the document that have a higher category level than the user will be hidden from the user either in part or completely. Also, there may be an indicator to the user of such redacted or hidden content from the user's viewer.

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Dependent claims

A computing system for dynamically generating an electronic visualization interface with multi-user access and control, the system comprising:

one or more computer readable storage devices configured to store a plurality of computer executable instructions;
and
one or more hardware computer processors in communication with the one or more computer readable storage devices and configured to execute the plurality of computer executable instructions to cause the computing system to:
generate an electronic visualization interface that is configured to be accessible by a plurality of users simultaneously, and is further configured to display a plurality of interactive artifacts;
determine an access category level of a first user accessing the electronic visualization interface;
determine an access category level of a second user accessing the electronic visualization interface;
determine an access category level of a first artifact of the plurality of interactive artifacts depicted in the electronic visualization interface;
and
provide the electronic visualization interface for viewing such that the first artifact is differently viewable by the first user as compared to the second user based at least in part on the access category levels of the first user, the second user, and the first artifact.

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Multi-user access controls in electronic simultaneously editable document editor

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Abstract

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