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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2012
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Erik James Fuller, Cape Town, ZA;

David Everard Brown, Cape Town, ZA;

James Alfred Gordon Greenfield, Cape Town, ZA;

Peter Nicholas DeSantis, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04W 12/04 (2009.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6227 (2013.01); G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); G06F 2221/0711 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2101 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for allowing system administrators to effectively debug access control issues experience by users without comprising security. In some embodiment, when a user's request to access services provided by a service provider is denied, the user may be issued a token that encodes some of debugging information useful for determining the cause of the denial of access. The debugging information may be encoded such that it is inaccessible to the user. Subsequently, the user may give the token to an administrator. The administrator may submit the token to the service provider, which may decode the token and provide the administrator access to debugging information that is useful for debugging access control policies causing the denial of access.


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