Distributed system and method for controlling access to network resources and event notifications
Patent 5999978 Issued on December 7, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date: 
October 31, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
October 31, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesNetwork management agent with user created objects providing additional functionality Distributed autonomous object architectures for network layer routing Hierarchical network management system Controlling access to objects on multiple operating systems System and method for database access control Secure multilevel object oriented database management system Patent #: 5826268 InventorsApplicationNo. 962090 filed on 10/31/1997US Classes:709/229, Network resources access controlling707/9, Privileged access709/226Network resource allocatingExaminersPrimary: Rinehart, Mark H.Attorney, Agent or FirmForeign Patent References
International ClassesG06F 013/38G06F 015/17 AbstractAn access control database defines access rights through the use of access control objects. The access control objects include group objects, each defining a group and a set of users who are members of the group, and rule objects. A first subset of the rule objects each specify a set of the group objects, a set of the management objects, and access rights by the users who are members of the groups defined by the specified set of the group objects to the specified set of management objects. The access control server responds to the access requests from the users by granting, denying and partially granting and denying the access requested in each access request in accordance with the access rights specified in the access control database. A second subset of the rule objects in the access control database each specify user access rights to event notifications generated by the specified set of management objects. An event registry is used for registering event notification requests by users, each event notification request specifying event notifications from specified sets of the management objects that are being requested. An event router receives event notifications generated by the management objects. It responds to each event notification by sending corresponding event notification messages to users who have registered a corresponding event notification request with the event registry and also have access rights to the received event notification in accordance with the access rights specified in the access control database.Other References
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