Controlling access to documents by parties

US9971750B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Trieu C. Chieu · Scarsdale, US
• Manikandan Dharamarajan · Norwalk, US
• Thomas Yu-Kiu Kwok · Hackettstown, US
• Linh H. Lam · Yorktown Heights, US
• Thao N. Nguyen · Katonah, US
• Kakan Roy · Bengaluru, IN
• Amit Jaysukhial Shah · Pune, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 10, 2012
• Grant date: May 15, 2018
• Expiry date: Apr 10, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q90/20
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Illustrative embodiments disclose a computer process controlling access to one or more documents by one or more parties, the parties organized over one or more organizations. In response to a party associated with a first organization attempting to access documents, determining an access level associated with the party as a first access level, a second access level, a third access level, or a fourth access level. The first, second, third and fourth access levels are ordered from the first access level to the fourth access level such that the first access level provides a greatest degree of access to the documents and the fourth access level provides a least degree of access to the documents. In response to determining the access level associated with the party, permitting the party to access the documents, or preventing the party from accessing the documents, according to the access level associated with the party.