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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2008
Byron A. Alcorn, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Roland M. Hochmuth, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Jeffrey J. Walls, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Valentin Popescu, Tomshall, TX (US);
Thomas J. Flynn, Magnolia, TX (US);
Quoc P. Pham, Spring, TX (US);
Byron A. Alcorn, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Roland M. Hochmuth, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Jeffrey J. Walls, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Valentin Popescu, Tomshall, TX (US);
Thomas J. Flynn, Magnolia, TX (US);
Quoc P. Pham, Spring, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for administering access to a central resource by a remote access device. A system includes a remote access device and a computer executing a hierarchical policy manager. The remote access device requests access to a central resource. The hierarchical policy manager determines a policy for allowing the device to access the resource by evaluating access policies at a plurality of precedence levels of a policy hierarchy. The hierarchical policy manager allows the device to access the resource based on the policy set at the highest precedence level of the policy hierarchy at which access control is specified.