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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2001
Jonathan C. Salas, Byron, CA (US);
Sanjeev Radhakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan C. Salas, Byron, CA (US);
Sanjeev Radhakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system to manage user access to resources and computing tasks on servers located on a network. The preferred embodiments of this system would enable a resource provider to manager user access to resources based on user specific criteria and resource specific criteria. The invention creates user associated access session(s) and generates tokens corresponding to such access session(s) to allow user access. The system is able to manage any type or any combination of licensing criteria, to manage different licensing criteria associated with the same user, to manage different licensing criteria associated with the same resource, and to manage different licensing relationship among users and resources. The system is scalable as additional sets of license managers can be added to manage additional users and resources. Optionally, secondary access sessions are provided to users to allow for completion of a current task when initial access session(s) are depleted.