Abstract: Changing access permission based on usage of computer resources including maintaining records of a user's usage of computer resources in a security domain, the user having a scope of access permission for the computer resources; measuring the user's disuse of one or more of the computer resources in the security domain; and degrading the user's scope of access permission for the computer resources in dependence upon the user's disuse. Typical embodiments include receiving from a user a request for access to a requested computer resource, receiving from the user a request to upgrade the user's degraded scope of access permissions to grant access to the requested computer resource and upgrading, in dependence upon the user's request to upgrade the degraded scope of access permissions, the user's degraded scope of access permissions to grant access to the requested computer resource.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for collecting user feedback based on search queries. The method comprises receiving a search term from a user, providing a search result to the user based on comparing at least a portion of the received search term with at least a portion of one or more entries stored in a database and providing a feedback module to the user to monitor at least one online action of the user in response to providing the search result. The method further provides for receiving, from the feedback module, information associated with the at least one monitored user action to adjust at least one entry stored in the database.