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Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2011
Applicants:

Scott A. Isaacson, Woodland Hills, UT (US);

John Melvin Antony, Herndon, VA (US);

Stephen R. Carter, Spanish Fork, UT (US);

Inventors:

Scott A. Isaacson, Woodland Hills, UT (US);

John Melvin Antony, Herndon, VA (US);

Stephen R. Carter, Spanish Fork, UT (US);

Assignee:

Novell, Inc., Provo, UT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/04 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/604 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus teach defining an access policy to digital data available on one or more computing devices, including identifying one or more semantic attributes of at least one first digital data set and using the identified attributes to define policy dictating user access privileges. On receipt of a user request to access at least one second digital data set, semantic attributes are compared to the at least one first digital data set and access is allowed or not allowed based on the policy. Semantic attributes are selected from at least one of a closeness attribute, a relatedness attribute, and a semantic vector attribute. Also is taught configuring a policy enforcement agent on the one or more computing devices to undertake the comparing and to allow or not allow access. In turn, computer program products and computing systems for accomplishing the foregoing are provided.


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