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Policy enforcement system

US9866592B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 28, 2015
Grant dateJan 9, 2018
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Expiry dateMay 11, 2036

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L63/0281
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing, by a policy enforcement system, a plurality of policies and data associating a plurality of user credentials with the plurality of policies; receiving, from a client device, a request for data from a file system, the request further comprising user credentials; forwarding the request for data to a second node that stores the data from the file system; receiving, from the node, the data from the file system; selecting from the plurality of policies, based on the received user credentials and the data associating the plurality of user credentials with the plurality of policies, one or more policies that correspond to the received user credentials; filtering, by the policy enforcement system, the data from the file system based on the one or more policies; and sending the filtered data to the client device.

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