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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2018
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Robert Carlton Johnson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stephen Charles Heise, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yiding Jia, Redwood City, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for an object; retrieving one or more rules to evaluate whether to allow or deny access to the object, wherein a first rule is of an allow-type or a deny-type; evaluating the first rule by executing one or more of its operations, wherein when any of the executed operations of the first rule returns a result that is not definitive, if the first rule is of the allow-type, assigning a final result as an indication to skip evaluation of the rule, and if the rule is of the deny-type, assigning the final result to the first rule as an indication to deny access to the object; determining final results for the one or more rules; and based on the final results, allowing or denying access to the object.