Patents by Inventor Ben Self

Ben Self has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Sensitivity-enabled access control model
    Patent number: 7934249
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that determine Rights to an entity. The disclosed technology maintains data structures representing a set of entities. These entities include protected-entities and sensitivity-entities. Each of the sensitivity-entities is associated with a respective sensitivity access-control-list. The sensitivity-entities include a first sensitivity-entity that is associated with a first sensitivity-access-control-list. A first protected-entity being one of one or more of the protected-entities associated with the first sensitivity-entity. The technology evaluates Rights to the first protected-entity with respect to the first sensitivity-access-control-list and enables access to the first protected-entity responsive to the Rights evaluation and presents the first protected-entity when access is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Eric S. Chan, Ilya Teplov, Rafiul Ahad, Mario Bonin, David Brennan Gaunce, Lenny Karpel, Patrice Lapierre, Terry M. Olkin, Daniel G. Rabe, Ben Self
  • SENSITIVITY-ENABLED ACCESS CONTROL MODEL
    Publication number: 20090064342
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that determine Rights to an entity. The disclosed technology maintains data structures representing a set of entities. These entities include protected-entities and sensitivity-entities. Each of the sensitivity-entities is associated with a respective sensitivity access-control-list. The sensitivity-entities include a first sensitivity-entity that is associated with a first sensitivity-access-control-list. A first protected-entity being one of one or more of the protected-entities associated with the first sensitivity-entity. The technology evaluates Rights to the first protected-entity with respect to the first sensitivity-access-control-list and enables access to the first protected-entity responsive to the Rights evaluation and presents the first protected-entity when access is enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric S. Chan, Ilya Teplov, Rafiul Ahad, Mario Bonin, David Brennan Gaunce, Lenny Karpel, Patrice Lapierre, Terry M. Olkin, Daniel G. Rabe, Ben Self