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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2001
Applicants:

Shawn P. Delany, San Jose, CA (US);

Sajeed Ahmed, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shawn P. Delany, San Jose, CA (US);

Sajeed Ahmed, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention is directed to technology for determining the set of groups that a user is a member of. A user can be a static member, dynamic member or nested member of a group. A user is a nested member of a first group if that user is a member of a second group and the second group is a member of the first group. There can be multiple levels of nesting. For example, an entity can be a nested member of a first group if that entity is a member of a second group, which is a member of a third group, which is a member of a fourth group, which is a member of the first group. The present invention can determine the groups for which the user is a static member, dynamic member or nested member.


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