Patent ID: 8453201
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method, the method comprising: storing policy data for a plurality of entities in at least one database, wherein each of the plurality of entities contains policy data corresponding thereto for governing interaction with at least one of the entities utilizing an interoperability network, including: receiving a message from the user for being transmitted in the interoperability network to the one of the application and the service; in response to the receipt of the message, identifying from the database the first policy data of the user and the second policy data of the one of the application and the service; merging the identified first policy data of the user and the identified second policy data of the one of the application and the service to produce a combined policy that is honored by both of the user and the one of the application and the service, wherein the identified first policy data is merged with the identified second policy data in response to the receipt of the message to be transmitted in the interoperability network; evaluating the combined policy at run-time with respect to the received message; determining whether the message is associated with a policy violation, based on the evaluation of the combined policy; rejecting the message when the determination is that the message is associated with the policy violation; and transmitting the message when the determination is that the message is not associated with the policy violation.