Patents by Inventor Sharon L. Cutcher

Sharon L. Cutcher 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).

  • Automatic policy generation based on role entitlements and identity attributes
    Patent number: 8533168
    Abstract: Policies defining the entitlements to be assigned to a new identity joining a role are automatically generated. An automatic policy assigns a new identity the entitlements commonly owned by a predetermined number of identities in the role, which may be all of the role identities. A conditional policy recommends that a new identity be assigned the non-commonly-owned entitlements associated with the role identity whose non-entitlement attributes most closely match the non-entitlement attributes of the new identity. This may be automatically determined by iterating through a vector that maps the non-commonly-owned entitlements with the non-entitlement attributes of each role identity, comparing the non-entitlement attributes of the new identity to find the closest match. The non-commonly-owned entitlements of that identity are then recommended to be assigned to the new identity, upon approval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Kuehr-McLaren, Pratik Gupta, Govindaraj Sampathkumar, Vincent C. Williams, Sharon L. Cutcher, Sumit Taank, Brian A. Stube, Hari Shankar
  • Automatic policy generation based on role entitlements and identity attributes
    Patent number: 7284000
    Abstract: Policies defining the entitlements to be assigned to a new identity joining a role are automatically generated. An automatic policy assigns a new identity the entitlements commonly owned by a predetermined number of identities in the role, which may be all of the role identities. A conditional policy recommends that a new identity be assigned the non-commonly-owned entitlements associated with the role identity whose non-entitlement attributes most closely match the non-entitlement attributes of the new identity. This may be automatically determined by iterating through a vector that maps the non-commonly-owned entitlements with the non-entitlement attributes of each role identity, comparing the non-entitlement attributes of the new identity to find the closest match. The non-commonly-owned entitlements of that identity are then recommended to be assigned to the new identity, upon approval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David G. Kuehr-McLaren, Pratik Gupta, Govindaraj Sampathkumar, Vincent C. Williams, Sharon L. Cutcher, Sumit Taank, Brian A. Stube, Hari Shankar