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1. At a server computer system that receives queries from one or more client computers for accessing hierarchically organized elements maintained in a database, a computerized method for managing permissions within the database, the method comprising:
receiving a database query directed towards returning information from one or more locations within a hierarchically organized data structure; identifying a user identification that is associated with the initiation of the database query; accessing an ordered flat file database, wherein the ordered flat file database comprises the information stored within the hierarchically organized data structure, including information associating each entry within the hierarchically organized data structure with the entry's relative position within the hierarchically organized data structure, wherein accessing the ordered flat file database includes ignoring specific entries within the hierarchically organized data structure that do not correspond to a permission attribute; and returning a query response that excludes the ignored information based on the permission attribute, wherein the permission attribute is applied to sequential entries within the ordered flat file database. |
