Patents by Inventor Scott Sumner-Moore

Scott Sumner-Moore 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).

  • Technique for simplifying the management and control of fine-grained access
    Patent number: 7693837
    Abstract: The invention is an improvement to conventional access control systems that use ACLs. The improvement comprises an Access Control Set, which is a data structure of access rules, ACLs, and other ACSs, and an improved object manager program that controls access to data objects according to the contents of an ACS. As in systems that rely exclusively on ACLs, every data object in the improved system includes a reference to an ACS that determines a user's access rights to the data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Scott Sumner-Moore
  • Technique for simplifying the management and control of fine-grained access
    Publication number: 20060230043
    Abstract: The invention is an improvement to conventional access control systems that use ACLs. The improvement comprises an Access Control Set, which is a data structure of access rules, ACLs, and other ACSs, and an improved object manager program that controls access to data objects according to the contents of an ACS. As in systems that rely exclusively on ACLs, every data object in the improved system includes a reference to an ACS that determines a user's access rights to the data object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventor: Scott Sumner-Moore