Patent ID: 8516540
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium for facilitating communication, comprising: computer code for storing in at least one database policy data for a plurality of entities, wherein each of the plurality of entities contains policy data corresponding thereto for governing interaction with the entity utilizing an interoperability network, wherein the policy data includes at least one rule, and wherein the storing includes: computer code for receiving from the user a posted message for being transmitted in the interoperability network to the second one of the entities, wherein a link token is included in a header of the posted message; computer code for, in response to the receipt of the posted message, identifying from the database the first policy data of the user and the second policy data of the second one of the entities; computer code for merging the identified first policy data of the user and the identified second policy data of the second one of the entities to produce a combined policy that is honored by both of the user and the second one of the entities, in response to receipt of the posted message from the user; and computer code for governing access to the second one of the entities by the user using the combined policy by: