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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2002
Bret A. Hartman, Action, MA (US);
Donald J. Flinn, Marblehead, MA (US);
Theodore R. Burghart, Jr., Mendon, MA (US);
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, apparatus, means, and computer program code for facilitating security in a network, particularly a distributed network. According to embodiments of the present invention an apparatus or system may include a manager in communication with one or more mappers and one or more adapters for facilitating security requests that may be associated with an application or its environment. An adapter may be associated with an application to identify security requests associated with the application. Similarly, a mapper may be associated with a security service to facilitate communication to and from the security service regarding security requests.