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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2009
Marc E. Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris W. Higgins, Portland, OR (US);
Simon P. King, Berkeley, CA (US);
Marc E. Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris W. Higgins, Portland, OR (US);
Simon P. King, Berkeley, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for creating and managing dynamic access control lists (ACL's). In a specific embodiment, a method of creating or modifying a dynamic access control policy (ACP) is disclosed. A current ACP for one or more specified resources is defined based on one or more membership rules for specifying users who can access the one or more specified resources based on user information that was or will be collected for a plurality of users. The collected user information includes at least user presence information or user communication data. The current ACP is retained for the one or more specified resources, wherein the current ACP is accessibly usable so as to dynamically allow a selected set of users, who each have corresponding collected user information which meets the one or more membership rules of the current ACP, to access the one or more specified resources. The selected set of users is changeable over time as different user information is collected over time.