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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2003
Mang-rong Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Tawei HU, San Jose, CA (US);
Mang-Rong Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Tawei Hu, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method providing a high performance access control list. The preferred embodiments operate in a computer network having a plurality of users of the network and comprising a database management system and a content management system controlling access to a plurality of entities shareable by the users of the network, the content management system using an access control list table having group privilege rules and user privilege rules for controlling access to the entities. A high performance ACL method is provided, the method comprising providing a run-time compiled ACL table, wherein the compiled ACL table provides resolved privilege rules for each of the users at run-time, and using the compiled ACL table, the content management system accessing user-selected ones of the entities based on the resolved privilege rules.