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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2017
Fornetix Llc, Leesburg, VA (US);
Stephen Edwards, Shepherdstown, WV (US);
Gerald J. Stueve, Herndon, VA (US);
Gary C. Gardner, Sterling, VA (US);
Charles White, Charles Town, WV (US);
Fornetix LLC, Frederick, MD (US);
Abstract
Examples described herein relate to systems and methods for integrating and implementing ad hoc groups within a policy hierarchy environment. The ad hoc groups may implement particular guidelines for group membership, policy evaluations, and group actions. Systems and methods provide a framework for creating groups, removing groups, and associating groups, nodes, clients, and users with groups and policy. In some examples, there is provided a method for implementing ad hoc groups in a policy hierarchy environment, the method including: receiving a key orchestration operation request at a client associated with a node, a group, and a user; applying a sum of policies associated with the node to the request; applying a sum of policies associated with the group to the request; applying a sum of policies associated with the client to the request; applying a sum of policies associated with the user to the request; and evaluating the key orchestration operation request based on each of the sum of policies of the node, the group, the client, and the user.