Patents by Inventor Nigel Dawson

Nigel Dawson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system of applying user permissions to an application program environment
    Publication number: 20060179321
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a method and system of applying a user's permission status to an entire application program environment comprising: parsing the entire application program to determine a description of user permission requirements for individual functions, and providing a respective descriptive document. A schema is then produced that models a class structure of the description of user permission requirements based on the descriptive document. The user permissions are applied in accordance with the results of a comparison of a predetermined user's permission and the permission requirements in the class structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Nigel Dawson, Shane Mortensen, Mark Glasgow