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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2008
Mohammed Irfan Rafiq, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chon Hei Lei, Alameda, CA (US);
Vikram Kapoor, Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas F. Keefe, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Nipun Agarwal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas Baby, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Sam Idicula, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vikram Reddy Pesati, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohammed Irfan Rafiq, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chon Hei Lei, Alameda, CA (US);
Vikram Kapoor, Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas F. Keefe, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Nipun Agarwal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas Baby, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Sam Idicula, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vikram Reddy Pesati, San Jose, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that implements a security policy in a database. During operation, the system receives a request associated with a set of objects in the database. Next, the system obtains a set of access control lists (ACLs) associated with the database, wherein a respective ACL specifies one or more access privileges associated with a user or user group, and wherein a respective ACLs is not specific to a particular object in the database. The system then evaluates the ACLs to obtain a set of ACL results associated with the request and processes the request by applying the set of ACL results to the objects without evaluating the ACLs repeatedly for each of the objects.