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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2018
Bluetalon, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Benjamin L. Weintraub, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems, computer program products and methods implementing consensus-based policy management are described. A policy administration point communicates with multiple user devices through policy collaboration plugins. Each user device includes a computer through which an administrator can edit a policy. A first user device can obtain a policy from the policy administration point for editing. The first user device stores the edited policy in a policy store. The first user device notifies one or more second user devices of the edit. Administrators on the second user devices can approve or disapprove the edit. Each second user device notifies the first user device of a respective approval or disapproval. The first user device can determine whether the edit is acceptable based on consensus. The policy store can be implemented locally to the first user device, in a centralized place, or distributed as a blockchain.