Digital data asset protection policy using dynamic network attributes

US10609042B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Paul Quinn · San Francisco, US
• Michael E. Lipman · Harvard, US
• Mike Milano · Groton, US
• David Delano Ward · Somerset, US
• James N. Guichard · New Boston, US
• Leonid Sandler · Jerusalem, IL
• Moshe Kravchik · Bet Shemesh, IL
• Alena Lifar · San Jose, US
• Darrin Joseph Miller · Marysville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 2016
• Grant date: Mar 31, 2020
• Expiry date: Apr 3, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W12/63
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Various systems and methods for determining whether to allow or continue to allow access to a protected data asset are disclosed herein. For example, one method involves receiving a request to access a protected data asset, wherein the request is received from a first user device; determining whether to grant access to the protected data asset, wherein the determining comprises evaluating one or more criteria associated with the first user device, and the criteria comprises first information associated with a first policy constraint; and in response to a determination that access to the protected data asset is to be granted, granting access to the protected data asset.