# US 9,521,046 B2 · System and method for provisioning user access to web site components in a portal framework > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,521,046 B2 - Document ID: US9521046B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/061,474 - Filed: 2013-10-23 - Published: 2014-02-20 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2001-09-17 - Assignees: Open Text SA ULC - Applicants: Open Text S.A. - Inventors: Ed Anuff; Edith Harbaugh; Ethan Vonderweid; John Petersen; Amy Phillips; Noah Guyot; Dean Moses; Dave MacLeod; Siddharth Rishi Raj Chaudhary - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9521046B2 ## CPC - H04L 41/20: {Network management software packages} - G06Q 10/10: Office automation; Time management - H04L 41/22: comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI] - H04L 41/28: Restricting access to network management systems or functions, e.g. using authorisation function to access network configuration - H04L 63/105: {Multiple levels of security} - H04L 67/306: User profiles - H04L 67/567: Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers - H04L 69/329: in the application layer [OSI layer 7] - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract A site in a portal management framework may have a set of site objects given a single identity. The site may be created in the portal management framework by a console object. The portal management framework may have at least one portal providing a gateway for access to the site. Sets of users granted administrative privileges with respect to a site object may further grant and delegate administrative privileges to other sets of users to perform administration type operations on site objects over which they have administrative privileges. Server consoles may be provided for performing administration on object(s) in the portal management framework. Site consoles may be provided for performing administration on object(s) with respect to each site. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system, comprising: one or more computing devices communicatively coupled to at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by the one or more computing devices to: create a site associated with a portal management framework on a computer network, the site comprising a set of site objects given a single identity, the portal management framework providing a gateway for access to the site; and define a first set of permissions, wherein a first permission in the first set of permissions defines a first set of users having access to a site object in the set of site objects. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a first console object configured for creating the site and the first set of permissions. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a second console object configured for mapping each site object in the set of site objects to at least one of: a domain name server or a uniform resource locator. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a site console comprising a user interface associated with an administration site operable to perform administration on one or more sites in the portal management framework. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a server console comprising a user interface associated with a server administration site operable to perform administration on one or more or all objects in the portal management framework. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the first permission in the first set of permissions further defines a second set of users having access to the site object in the set of site objects based on a relationship between the first set of users and the second set of users. ### Claim 7 A computer program product comprising at least a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by one or more computing devices to: create a site associated with a portal management framework on a computer network, the site comprising a set of site objects given a single identity, the portal management framework providing a gateway for access to the site; define a first set of permissions, wherein a first permission in the first set of permissions defines a first set of users having access to a site object in the set of site objects. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a first console object configured for creating the site and the first set of permissions. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a second console object configured for mapping each site object in the set of site objects to at least one of: a domain name server or a uniform resource locator. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a site console comprising a user interface associated with an administration site operable to perform administration on one or more sites in the portal management framework. ### Claim 11 (depends on 7) The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further translatable to provide a server console comprising a user interface associated with a server administration site operable to perform administration on one or more or all objects in the portal management framework. ### Claim 12 (depends on 7) The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the first permission in the first set of permissions further defines a second set of users having access to the site object in the set of site objects based on a relationship between the first set of users and the second set of users. ### Claim 13 A method for performing administration on a portal management framework on a computer network, comprising: providing, by a computing device on the computer network, a first console object for performing administration on one or more sites in the portal management framework on the computer network, wherein each site of the one or more sites comprises a collection of objects given a single identity, and wherein the administration performed by the first console object comprises: creating a site on the portal management framework on the computer network, the site comprising a set of site objects given a single identity, the portal management framework providing a gateway for access to the site; defining a first set of permissions, wherein a first permission in the first set of permissions defines a first set of users having access to a site object in the set of site objects. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising: providing a second console object for mapping each site object in the set of site objects to at least one of: a domain name server or a uniform resource locator. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, wherein the first permission in the first set of permissions further defines a first set of administrative privileges for the first set of users with respect to the site object in the set of site objects. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15, wherein access to the first console object is in accordance with a second set of administrative privileges granted to a second set of users. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method of claim 16, further comprising providing a second console object configured for creating a third permission defining a third set of users having access to the site object in the set of site objects. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, wherein the third permissions further defines a third set of administrative privileges for the third set of users with respect to the site object in the set of site objects. ### Claim 19 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising: providing a site console comprising a user interface associated with an administration site operable to perform administration on one or more sites in the portal management framework. ### Claim 20 (depends on 13) The method of claim 13, further comprising: providing a server console comprising a user interface associated with a server administration site operable to perform administration on one or more or all objects in the portal management framework.