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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2011
Willem Robert Van Biljon, Cape Town, ZA;
Christopher Conway Pinkham, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Russell Andrew Cloran, Cape Town, ZA;
Michael Carl Gorven, Cape Town, ZA;
Alexandre Hardy, Capetown, ZA;
Brynmor K. B. Divey, Cape Town, ZA;
Quinton Robin Hoole, Cape Town, ZA;
Girish Kalele, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Willem Robert Van Biljon, Cape Town, ZA;
Christopher Conway Pinkham, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Russell Andrew Cloran, Cape Town, ZA;
Michael Carl Gorven, Cape Town, ZA;
Alexandre Hardy, Capetown, ZA;
Brynmor K. B. Divey, Cape Town, ZA;
Quinton Robin Hoole, Cape Town, ZA;
Girish Kalele, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
An authorizing entity is allowed to grant permission to a subject to perform an action on an object in a cloud computing environment. An authorizer is defined as the entity having granting authority to delegate a predetermined permission. A subject is defined as a group to whom the permission is being delegated. An object is defined upon which an action is authorized within the cloud computing environment. The action being authorized in the cloud computing environment is defined. Members of the subject group are authorized to perform the permitted action on the object.