Patent ID: 9270679
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method of creating or modifying a dynamic access control policy (ACP), comprising: dynamically forming by a processor a current ACP for one or more specified resources based on one or more membership rules for specifying users who can access the one or more specified resources based, at least in part, on user information collected for a plurality of users, wherein accessibility of the user information associated with each one of the plurality of users for use in forming the current ACP is configurable by the corresponding one of the plurality of users via a privacy control to indicate which user information and/or type of user information is excluded from being collected for the corresponding one of the plurality of users for use in forming the current ACP; and retaining the current ACP for the one or more specified resources, wherein the current ACP is accessibly usable so as to dynamically allow a set of users, who each have corresponding collected user information which meets the one or more membership rules of the current ACP, to access the one or more specified resources, wherein the set of users is changeable over time as different user information is collected over time.