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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
May. 29, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Boreham, Livingston, MT (US);
Peter Rowley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark C. Smith, Saline, MI (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
Several types of roles are disclosed herein. The difference between the role types relates to their capabilities, which in turn derive from how they are implemented. When a client application whishes to identify all entries with some characteristic, e.g., everyone who is a manager and works in a designated building, a filtered role, which uses an LDAP filter in order to search a designated portion of the directory system and to identify those entries that possess the characteristics described in filter, is used.