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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2006
Michiharu Kudoh, Kamakura, JP;
Tomio Amano, Yokohama, JP;
Michiharu Kudoh, Kamakura, JP;
Tomio Amano, Yokohama, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
It is one object of the present invention to provide an access control system that employs an access control rule and that does not distinguish between data and the access control rule, so that the same flexible access control that is available for the data can also be provided for the access control rule. An access control system comprises: an access controller 200 for, in accordance with the access request, employing an access control rule defining an access right for the object to determine whether or not access to the object should be permitted; and an object storage unit 500 for storing a set of access control rules as objects equivalent to common data objects, wherein, upon the receipt of a request to access an access control rule, the access controller 200 determines whether or not access to the access control rule should be permitted.