Access control system for use in a digital computer system with object-based addressing and call and return operations
US4545012A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 22, 1981 |
| Grant date | Oct 1, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 22, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F13/18
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An access control system for use in a digital computer system wherein the memory system is organized into objects, a data item is locatable by specifying an object, instructions are contained in procedures, and the operations performed by the system include a call operation for suspending an execution of a procedure and commencing another execution and a return operation for terminating an execution and resuming a suspended execution. The access control system associates each procedure with a domain, i.e., a set of objects accessible to the procedure. The access control system further includes a secure stack object which is accessible only to the access control system. When a call operation commences execution of a procedure which has a different domain, the access control system responds to the call operation by storing information required to return to the current domain in the secure stack. When a return operation resumes execution of a procedure which has a different domain, the access control system responds to the call operation by using the information in the secure stack to return to the previous domain.
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