(54) METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING DOCUMENT USER ROLE INDICATION
(75) Inventor: Brian John Cragun, Rochester, MN (US)
(73) Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
( * ) Notice: This patent issued on a continued prosecution application filed under 37 CFR 1.53(d), and is subject to the twenty year patent term provisions ol 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2).
Subject to any disclaimer, the term ol this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days.
(21) Appl. No.: 08/976,631
(22) Filed: Nov. 24, 1997
(51) Int. CI.7 G06F 17/00; G06F 15/16
(52) U.S. CI 707/500; 709/201; 709/246;
345/347
(58) Field of Search 345/335, 347;
379/265; 455/4.2; 707/515, 500; 709/201,
246, 225
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Primary Examiner—-Joseph H. Feild
Assistant Examiner—William L. Bashore
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—-Joan Pennington; Owen J.
Gamon
(57) ABSTRACT
An intelligent method, apparatus and computer program product are provided lor providing a digital document user role indication. A user role profile for a user is stored. Selecting rules are utilized for identilying one ol the plurality ol roles from the stored user role profile. Responsive to the applying the selecting rules, a selected user role indication is appended to a digital document. The user role indication can be selected based upon document content, a time ol day value, and/or send lists for the digital document. Multiple user selected settings can be selected for the role from a group ol enviromental values including name, icon, selection sound, header, looter, opening, closing, background, encryption, signature key, and priority.
19 Claims, 9 Drawing Sheets
