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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2019
Styra, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Andrew Curtis, San Mateo, CA (US);
Mikol Graves, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bryan J. Fulton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy L. Hinrichs, Los Altos, CA (US);
Marco Sanvido, Belmont, CA (US);
Teemu Koponen, San Francisco, CA (US);
STYRA, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for providing insight into applicability of policies that authorize access to at least one service through application programming interface (API) calls by multiple users. The method receives at least one authorization policy that defines access to the service by the users, where the policy includes two or more access rules. The method identifies a subset of unnecessary access rules in the received policy, based on a set of contextual data that is associated with the users, and filters the received policy by removing the identified subset of unnecessary access rules. The method receives a query regarding access to the service from a particular set of one or more users, and uses the filtered policy to provide a response to the query that describes access to the service for the particular user set.