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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2008
Anthony J. Nadalin, Austin, TX (US);
Nataraj Nagaratnam, Cary, NC (US);
Sridhar R. Muppidi, Austin, TX (US);
Anthony J. Nadalin, Austin, TX (US);
Nataraj Nagaratnam, Cary, NC (US);
Sridhar R. Muppidi, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the present invention can include a system, a method, a computer program product and an apparatus for federating policies from multiple policy providers. The aspect can identify a set of distinct policy providers, each maintaining at least one policy related to a service or a resource. A federated policy exchange service can be established that has a policy provider plug-in for each of the distinct policy providers. The federated policy exchange service can receive requests for policies from a set of policy requesters. Each request can include a resource_id or a service_id used to uniquely identify the service or resource. The federated policy exchange service can dynamically connect to a set of the policy providers to determine policies applicable to each request. For each request, results from the policy providers can be received and processed to generate a response. The federated policy exchange service can provide the response to each policy requestor responsive in response to each response.