Patent ID: 8522306
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: retrieving at least one policy from an eXtensible Markup Language “XML” document; wherein the XML document defines multiple policies and wherein redundancy between the multiple policies within the XML document is avoided; implementing the at least one policy for facilitating communication among a plurality of entities; wherein the at least one policy is associated with a first one of the entities and describes requirements of at least one of the plurality of entities; wherein the at least one policy relates to resource requirements; wherein the resource requirements are utilized for configuring a resource according to the resource requirements, for enabling compliance with the at least one policy; wherein the resource is validated according to the resource requirements; evaluating, during run time, content associated with the at least one policy; determining whether the content is associated with a policy violation, based on the at least one policy; generating a policy violation message corresponding to a policy violation; and communicating the policy violation message; wherein the above steps are performed by a computer-processor.