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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2018
Applicant:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6281 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01); H04L 63/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for providing restricted access to hardware component interfaces of a network device by one or more software components of the network device, wherein an access to a hardware component interface requested by a software component is permitted by a mandatory access control, MAC, mechanism implemented as part of the network device's operating system on the basis of a MAC security policy including access rights defined as access relations between software component security labels assigned to software component types and hardware component interface security labels assigned to hardware component interface types.