Patent ID: 11934548
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A method performed by a computing system, the method comprising:
receiving at each of a plurality of database servers in the system, from a central policy storage managed externally to the database server, a plurality of external access policies that correspond to users;
in response to said receiving, storing at each of the plurality of database servers, in a cache of a respective database, the plurality of external access policies that are received;
responsive to a resource access request received from a device of a user that specifies a resource internal to the database server, determining an access condition via a policy engine of one of the database servers, based at least on one of the plurality of external access policies and one of a plurality of internal access policies;
determining that both the one of the plurality of external access policies and the one of the plurality of internal access policies indicate a grant of access; and
providing data associated with the resource to the device of the user based at least on the access condition being met to access the resource.