US 11,675,927 B2
System and method for external users in groups of a multitenant system
Kyle Anthony Aziz, Kitchener (CA); Scott Grasley, Kitchener (CA); and Feng Guo, Waterloo (CA)
Assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC, Halifax (CA)
Filed by Open Text SA ULC, Halifax (CA)
Filed on Nov. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/97,642.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/934,841, filed on Nov. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0141930 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 21/6245 (2013.01) [H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04L 63/104 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing a set of computer-executable instructions, the set of computer-executable instructions comprising instructions translatable by a content management application on a computing platform for:
receiving a user group definition from a first tenant, the user group definition including an indication of an external user external to the first tenant as a group administrator;
creating a first user group for the first tenant based on the user group definition from the first tenant, the creating including:
creating a user group object; and
updating a data structure with the user group object that indicates the external user as the group administrator;
associating the first user group with the first tenant, thereby delegating the external user with group administrative privileges with respect to the first user group associated with the first tenant; and
based on the indication of the external user as the group administrator, providing a user interface with the group administrative privileges delegated to the external user to allow the external user to add a user to or remove a user from the first user group associated with the first tenant.