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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
May. 15, 2018
Cox Communications, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Pujan Roka, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Yousef Wasef Nijim, Cumming, GA (US);
Douglas David Gravino, Roswell, GA (US);
COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Access to a provider's restricted resources for users who are not directly associated with the provider but who are permitted to access the restricted resources based on the users' affiliation with a third-party subscriber is provided. An example affiliation is a university student's (user's) affiliation with a university (third-party subscriber). A user's identity can be authenticated by the third party, and the user's access entitlements can be authorized by the third party based on the third party's authorization policies and by an authorized distributor of the restricted resources of which the third party is a subscriber based on the distributor's authorization policies. An access decision is made by a policy enforcement service based on the authorization access decisions made by the third party and by the authorized distributor. The provider allows the user access to its otherwise restricted resources based on a permit decision made by the policy enforcement service.