US Patent 10122717 Hierarchical case model access roles and permissions

Hierarchical case model access roles and permissions are described. A system creates, for a child node associated with a parent node in a case model, a reference to a case role associated with the parent node. The system assigns another set of access permissions to the reference. . The system determines access to the child node based on the set of access permissions in response to a request associated with the case role to access the child node.