Patent ID: 8266284
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of managing access to resources in a network, comprising: evaluating, using a computing device, a reputation for a network participant, wherein at least one representation of the reputation comprises an icon; determining, using the computing device, an appropriate level of access to network resources for the network participant from a plurality of levels of access to network resources based on the reputation of the network participant, wherein at least some network resources have associated reputation elements that are useable to further determine an access level to said at least some network resources and levels of access to network resources are configured, at least in part, to delineate corresponding utilization of network resource consumption; determining, using the computing device, eligibility of the network participant to access network resources based, at least in part, on a history of behaviors of the network participant, regardless of the reputation of the network participant, wherein the network participant is denied access to network resources if the history shows a pattern of certain undesirable behaviors; and performing, using the computing device, an action corresponding to the appropriate level of access to network resources determined.