Techniques of transforming policies to enforce control in an information management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990886-B2
Application number	US-201314035595-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2013
Priority date	Dec 29, 2005
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

In an information management system, policies are deployed to targets and targets can evaluate the policies whether they are connected or disconnected to the system. The policies may be transferred to the target, which may be a device or user. Relevant policies may be transferred while not relevant policies are not. The policies may have policy abstractions.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of managing information of a network comprising:
providing a server handling a first policy language having access to a policy database;
providing a first device comprising a first decision engine to manage information accessible via the first device according to a first set of policies stored on the device, wherein the first set of policies is associated with the first policy language;
providing a second device comprising:
a first appli…

Assignees

• Nextlabs Inc

Inventors

• Lim Keng

Classifications

• G06Q10/06 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/6218

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/0263

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y10S707/922

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G06F17/3089

  Physics · mapped topic