Appeal No. 2006-2936 Application No. 10/013,714 Invention Appellant’s invention relates generally to a method and system for controlling the installation of an externally acquired software program (P) in a computer (10) before said program is authorized to access a database (13) located on said computer (10). Upon receipt of a request from the program (P) indicating a desire to access the database (13), a safety checker (11a) reviews the program, and issues a certificate verifying that the program is safe to be installed on the computer (10). If the certificate indicates that the program is very safe, a data access permission setting manager (11b) assigns a “high access permission setting” to the program with unrestricted access to the database (13). In contrast, if the certificate indicates that the program is not totally safe, the database access permission manager (11b) assigns a “low access permission setting” to the program restricting its access only to low security level data. Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is reproduced as follows: 1. A database access control method of controlling access to a database in a database device executing a program which accesses a database, comprising the steps of: (a) making a data access permission setting for the program which accesses the database storing sets of data for each of which a security level setting is made; and 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007