Dynamic management of groups for entitlement and provisioning of computer resources

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8955151-B2
Application number	US-201213459028-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 27, 2012
Priority date	Apr 30, 2011
Publication date	Feb 10, 2015
Grant date	Feb 10, 2015

Abstract

Methods, systems, and techniques for managing groups of entities, such as individuals, employees, or systems, and providing entitlement and access to computer resources based on group membership are provided. Example embodiments provide a Group Management System having a Group Management Engine “GME,” an Entitlement Engine, and a Provisioning Engine, which work together to allow simplified grouping of entities and providing entitlement and access to the entities based upon the group membership. In one embodiment, the GME leverages dynamic programming techniques to enable accurate, scalable systems that can manage near real time updates and changes to the group's status or to the entities' status. These components cooperate to enable provisioning of applications based upon current entitlement.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method in a computing system for dynamically managing computer applications, comprising:
receiving data containing application entitlements;
receiving a plurality of group definitions, each of the group definitions expressing one or more group composition logic rules, wherein the one or more group composition logic rules of a group definition are used to identify members of a corresponding group, from a plurality of candidate member users, through…

Assignees

• Pugh William
• Vmware Inc

Inventors

• Pugh William

Classifications

• G06F21/6218 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F2221/2141

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/604 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F2221/2145

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L47/828 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic