Patent ID: 7983264
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing access control lists used in controlling electronic communications between distributed computerized network components by utilizing at least one user electronic interface to at least one programmable control unit, said programmable control unit having an executable, interpretable, assembled, or assemblable program therein for comparing access control entries in access control lists to other access control entries in the same list and including user input capability comprising the steps of: a. Selecting an access control list via said user input capability; b. Comparing each access control entry in said access control list with other access control entries in said access control list to determine if said access control entry is forwardly redundant, backwardly redundant, shadowed, or conflicted; c. iteratively repeating as often as necessary step b until all forwardly redundant, backwardly redundant, shadowed, or conflicted access control entries are found, further comprising optimization of said access control lists wherein said optimization comprises the steps of: