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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Michael Wayne Brown, Georgetown, TX (US);
Kelvin Roderick Lawrence, Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael A. Paolini, Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael Wayne Brown, Georgetown, TX (US);
Kelvin Roderick Lawrence, Round Rock, TX (US);
Michael A. Paolini, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the method, system and program of the present invention, authority-designated settings are stored on a portable data storage medium in association with a particular user, wherein the authority-designated settings designate levels of access to particular types of content as determined by multiple authorities to the particular user. Transmittal of a selection of the authority-designated settings is required from the portable data storage medium in a transmittable data format to a particular authority-enabled system from among multiple authority-enabled systems, wherein each of the multiple authority-enabled systems provides access to multiple diverse types of content. The particular user is only allowed access to a selection of the multiple types of content that are enabled according to the authority-designated settings at the particular authority-enabled system.