MANAGING PERMISSIONS IN COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACES USING VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF CLIENTS

摘要

Certain aspects involve managing permissions in collaborative workspaces using visual representations of clients. For example, a graphical interface can be displayed that represents a collaborative workspace and that includes visual representations of different clients accessing the workspace. A workspace application executed by a processor can determine that visual representations for at least two clients are positioned in a common region of the graphical interface. The workspace application can authorize the clients to collaboratively modify electronic content that is accessible via the graphical interface based on the visual representations being positioned in the common region. Subsequently, the workspace application can determine that the visual representations are positioned outside the common region and restrict access to the collaboratively modified content accordingly. The workspace application can restrict each client to modifying a respective portion of the electronic content that was modified by the client when both visual representations were in the common region.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
configuring a display device to display, in a graphical interface representing a collaborative workspace, a first visual representation representing a first client and a second visual representation representing a second client; determining at a first point in time that the first visual representation and the second visual representation are positioned in a common region of the graphical interface; based the first visual representation and the second visual representation being positioned in the common region, authorizing the first client and the second client to collaboratively modify electronic content accessible via the graphical interface; determining at a second point in time that the first visual representation and the second visual representation are positioned outside the common region; and based on the first visual representation and the second visual representation being positioned outside the common region, restricting the first client to modifying a first content portion from the electronic content that was modified by the first client when the first and second visual representations were in the common region and restricting the second client to modifying a second content portion from the electronic content that was modified by the second client when the first and second visual representations were in the common region.