A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSIGNING ACCESS CONTROL LEVELS IN PROVIDING ACCESS TO NETWORKED CONTENT FILES

摘要

A method and apparatus for assigning access control levels when providing access to networked content files includes a client node (102) , a collection agent (104) , and a policy engine (106) . The client node requests access to a resource. The collection agent gathers information about the client node. The policy engine receives the gathered information and assigns one of a plurality of levels of access responsive to application of a policy to the received information. An application server farm (114) may present contents of the resource to the client node using an application program associated with a file type of the requested file. A transformation server (516) may transform the contents of the resource from a native format to a second format and present the transformed contents of the resource to the client node.