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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2001
Shawn P. Delany, San Jose, CA (US);
Sajeed Ahmed, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vivian M. Ganitsky, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shawn P. Delany, San Jose, CA (US);
Sajeed Ahmed, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vivian M. Ganitsky, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to technology for determining the members of groups. A group can have static members, dynamic members and/or nested members. An entity is a nested member of a first group if that entity 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 membership of a group, including the static members, dynamic members and/or nested members. Furthermore, the present invention can be used to expand one or more groups so that future requests to view the membership of a group can be performed in a more efficient manner.