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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2005
Erwin Hom, Foster City, CA (US);
Clay Maeckel, San Jose, CA (US);
Erwin Hom, Foster City, CA (US);
Clay Maeckel, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for using both database internal and database external authorization information to control access to a database are disclosed. Corporate accounts which are generally used in many corporate environments (e.g., operating system accounts) can be defined as 'external' database accounts with database external authorization information that define database external access privileges for a database. The database external access-privileges are used in conjunction with a set of complementary database 'internal' access privileges defined for database internal accounts. An integrated access-privilege set is generated and used as a single source to authorize access to a database regardless of whether database internal or external accounts are used to access the database. As a result, databases can be integrated with various non-database entities (e.g., corporate computing systems).