Authorizations for analytical reports

US8726336B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Girsig · Heidelberg, DE
• Stefan Biedenstein · Bad Schönborn, DE
• Karl-Peter Nos · Schallstadt, DE
• Juergen Alfred Seyfried · Walldorf, DE
• Martin Osterloh · Leimen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 29, 2010
• Grant date: May 13, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 11, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0637
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system may include reception of a request from a user to start a report associated with a node of a business object object model, where the node of the business object object model is associated with an access control list associating instances of the node with at least one access context restriction, determination of a first access context restriction associated with the user, retrieval of the at least one instance of the node based on the first access context restriction and on the access control list associated with the node, and presentation of an instance of the report to the user, the instance of the report populated with the at least one instance.