Patent ID: 9281993
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method to distribute policies, comprising: defining, by a policy processor, a policy template associated with each policy; assigning, by the policy processor, a unique identification (ID) to each policy template; storing, by the policy processor, each policy template and assigned ID in a policy template repository; transmitting, by the policy processor, only the assigned ID to an enforcement point for each policy to be enforced by the enforcement point; determining, by the enforcement point, if the policy template corresponding to each transmitted ID is present at the enforcement point; receiving a query from the enforcement point for each policy template that is not present at the enforcement point, wherein the query includes the ID for the policy template not present at the enforcement point; transmitting the policy template from the policy template repository to the enforcement point in response to the query including the ID for the policy template; identifying at least one set of parameters to be associated with each policy template; transmitting the one set of parameters to be used in each associated policy template for enforcement to the enforcement point; binding the parameters to each associated template; and implementing the policy associated with each policy template.