International Business Machines Corporation

Holger Waterstrat

Dieter Buehler

Thomas Stober

Carsten Leue

Stefan Schmitt

Oliver Then

Steffen Uhlig

Andreas Nauerz

Stefan Liesche

Jan Paul Buchwald

Sybille Kurz

Stephan Schmitt

A portal server comprises memory, a profile manager, a profile selector, and a profile initiator. The profile manager is configured to manage a plurality of profile records in a profile database. The profile selector is configured to select at least one of the plurality of profile records based on context data collected at a client and context data collected at the portal server. The collected context data corresponds to particular user interaction activity with the portal server. The profile initiator is configured to adapt a user interface based on the profile selected by the profile selector.

Automatically adapting a user interface

A method for providing a dynamic web portal page in a web portal environment by modifying the web portal page, the method comprising, with a server, providing a content with one or more portlets of the web portal page to a user; entering code from the server for identifying user-interface elements in the content of the web portal page; entering code from the server into the provided content of the web portal page for monitoring user actions related to the identified user-interface elements in the content of the web portal page; re-configuring automatically the content of the web portal page according to a user-specific preference extracted from the monitored user actions for the user at a later stage.

Dynamic web portal page

A system for providing a dynamic web portal page in a web portal environment by modifying the web portal page, where the system includes: a server configured to provide a content with at least one portlet of the web portal page to a user. The server enters code into the provided content of the web portal page for identifying user-interface elements in the content of the web portal page. The server enters code into the provided content of the web portal page for monitoring user actions related to the identified user-interface elements in the content of the web portal page. The server re-configures automatically the content of the web portal page according to a user-specific preference extracted from the monitored user actions for the user at a later stage.

The present invention relates to a method and system for controlling access rights to dynamically instantiated portal applications in a portal environment, wherein new instances of a portal application and respective access control information on resources used in the application are generated dynamically from an automated programmed mechanism, and wherein a user-application role mapping is demanded for the portal application by a respective runtime access control function implemented at the portal environment. The method includes: assigning an individual user-to-application role mapping to a respective individual one of the created instances of the portal application, wherein for each incoming user request to one of the created instances the runtime access control function checks a target application instance identifier, which identifies an individual application instance desired to be addressed by the incoming request; and granting access rights to incoming user requests according to the application roles as they are defined for the target application instance.

Access control on dynamically instantiated portal applications

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