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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2022
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ashwini Rajendran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William O'Donnell, Wisconsin Rapids, WI (US);
Heli Utpal Modi, San Jose, CA (US);
Malay Prajapati, Dublin, CA (US);
Ketan Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nutanix, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Role-based access controls (RBAC) are extended to include multi-party authorizations for certain computing cluster operations or data items. Upon receiving a request to perform an operation over a computing cluster or its data, a check is carried out to determine if the operation (e.g., READ, WRITE, EXECUTE, DELETE, etc.) is subject to both a role-based access control as well as a multi-party authorization (MPA) consensus protocol. The determination to allow or deny the request includes (1) accessing a role-based access control record corresponding to the operation or data item, and (2) invoking the multi-party authorization consensus protocol. Prior to performance of the operation, a computer program collects 'approve' or “deny” responses from individual ones of the multiple parties. When approval consensus is reached, the operation is performed. If approval is denied, or if an approval consensus is not reached within a time limit, then the operation is not performed.