Access Rights Management Interface for Web Application Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Designing and maintaining database-driven web applications with multiple user roles and rights is complex, as pages behave differently based on submitted data and user access, making it difficult for application owners to comprehend and verify application behavior.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented design interface that provides a workflow inference, summarization, and visualization of data flows, allowing designers to simulate user interactions and understand access rights modifications, and generates application queries and commands to enforce access rights based on user actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a web application is designed with multiple user roles and complex access rights, then the application functionality and security are improved, but the complexity of designing and maintaining the application increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (access rights management system) that mediates between users and application resources. This intermediary automatically enforces access rights based on user roles and actions, reducing the complexity of manual access control design while improving security and reliability of access rights enforcement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining user roles, access rights, and action specifications during application design. Access rights modifications are predetermined and automatically applied when specific actions are invoked, eliminating the need for complex runtime access control decisions and simplifying maintenance.
2Adaptability or versatility
If access rights modifications are dynamically applied based on user actions, then the application adaptability is improved, but the difficulty of verifying application behavior increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that automatically track and record access rights modifications triggered by user actions. The system provides feedback loops that verify whether access rights changes were correctly applied, enabling automatic validation of application behavior and reducing the difficulty of verifying dynamic access control operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates copies of access rights specifications and action definitions that can be independently verified and tested. By maintaining copies of the intended access rights modifications alongside the actual application state, the system enables verification of behavior without interfering with the dynamic adaptability of access control.
3Productivity
If the application state is modified by user actions with different access rights, then the application functionality is improved, but the complexity of managing and enforcing access rights increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments access rights management into distinct components: user roles, access rights definitions, action specifications, and enforcement mechanisms. This segmentation allows each component to be independently managed and configured, reducing the overall complexity of managing access rights while enabling rich application functionality with multiple user roles and permissions.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for application design and application data flow analysis. Techniques, apparatuses, and systems can include providing a design interface to create an application with different user groups and access rights, the design interface operable to specify an action to include to a page of the application, where the action, when invoked, modifies the application state; receiving an action specification that describes an access rights modification that results from an invocation of the action during an execution of the application, where the access rights modification indicates an enabling or disabling of one or more access rights of a user; and generating application specification queries and commands to enforce access rights based on the access rights modification.