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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
May. 11, 1998
Kimberly Anne Braia, San Jose, CA (US);
Curt Lee Cotner, Gilroy, CA (US);
Nelson Mendonca Mattos, San Jose, CA (US);
Randy M. Nakagawa, San Jose, CA (US);
Roy Lorenzo Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome Quan Wong, Mountain View, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented authorization system. A statement is to be executed by a computer to manipulate data in a database stored on a data storage device connected to the computer. Initially, an environment of the database from which the statement was invoked is identified. Additionally, a security option is identified. Then, authorization privileges for the statement are determined based on the identified environment and security option.