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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2005
Applicants:
Dieter Buehler, Tuebingen, DE;
Thomas Hurek, Leinfelden, DE;
Donald N. Jones, Cary, NC (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/105 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates to a role-based access control system, including a role definition system for defining roles to be sets of permissions on individual resources thus forming role instances, respectively; and a super role definition system for defining at least one super role by grouping a set of role instances into one super role, wherein the one super role contains all permissions contained in the grouped resource instances. Furthermore, the present invention deals with an appropriate method, a computer program and a computer program product.