Facilitating access to restricted functionality
US8606656B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 28, 2008 |
| Grant date | Dec 10, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 28, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q30/0643
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are described for facilitating access of computing system users to restricted functionality, such as internal functionality of a business or other organization (e.g., internal systems and/or confidential information available to some or all business employees or other organization members). The restricted functionality access may in some situations be provided in conjunction with publicly available information from the organization, such as to use that publicly available information as part of a user interface that allows an authorized subset of users to access the restricted functionality. In some situations, the restricted functionality access may be facilitated by an access provider system that executes on a client computing system of an authorized user, such as a program operating in conjunction with another presentation program that presents publicly available information (e.g., as an extension program for the presentation program), and that modifies the interactions available to the user when using the presentation program.
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