Patent ID: 7810132
Filing Date: 2010-10-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer readable memory device encoded with software for use in a distributed computing domain, the software performing steps comprising: distributing administrative objects and user objects to one or more application servers; allowing a user to declare in a list which objects residing on each application server are to be protected; reading the list by an interceptor; responsive to exportation of a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (“CORBA”) compliant Interoperable Object Reference (“IOR”) for a listed object, associating by the interceptor one or more application server security flags with interfaces to the listed objects by tagging components of the IOR with one or more security flags; and performing one or more security operations by an application server according to the security flags tagged to the IOR when a client accesses an application server-stored object, the security operations including an operation besides establishing secure communications between the client process and the server-stored object.