Patent ID: 11936655
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
identifying, by a processor, activities that an entity performed on a resource over a predetermined period of time, wherein the entity is to use a permission assigned to the entity over the resource to perform the identified activities;
identifying, by the processor, groups of permissions that comprise the permission the entity used to perform the identified activities, wherein the groups of permissions are assigned respective values;
determining, by the processor, permutations of the groups of permissions, wherein the permutations of the groups of permissions are various combinations of the groups of permissions that comprise the permission that the entity used to perform the identified activities;
calculating, by the processor, scores for the permutations of the groups of permissions based on the respective values assigned to the groups of permissions;
identifying, by the processor, a subset of the permutations of the groups of permissions that have lowest scores; and
outputting, by the processor, information pertaining to the subset of the permutations of the groups of permissions having the lowest scores.