Method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer

摘要

The present invention relates to the field of Network portals and in particular to a method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer groups, wherein a given user's peer group is defined to be the set of users containing all the members of all the user's communities, wherein the individual communities are defined within the web portal wherein on said web portal a plurality of composite applications are implemented, wherein each composite application (19; 50) has a predetermined number of users working with said composite application building a community for that composite application,;characterized by the steps of:;a) building a filter based on the peer group of the requesting user by collecting the communities of all composite applications which said user is member of (650, 660, 670)b) using said filter as an additional constraint when selecting (680) user information from the user registry in order to limit all query results to user profile information associated to members of the given user's peer group and,c) displaying the result to the user (690).

主权项

1. A method for restricting access rights on user profile information using peer groups, wherein a given peer group of a user includes a set of users in all communities of which the user is a member, wherein each of the communities is defined within a web portal upon which a plurality of composite applications are implemented, each of the composite applications comprising a predetermined number of users building a corresponding community, the method comprising the steps of:
a. receiving a query from a requesting user for a user registry, identifying a peer group of the requesting user and building a filter based upon the peer group of the requesting user by including in the filter each of the communities of all composite applications of which said requesting user is a member; b. querying the user registry for user information with a primary constraint and also with an additional constraint of the filter in order to limit all results of the query to user profile information associated with members of the communities of all composite applications of which said requesting user is a member; and, c. displaying the result to the requesting user.