Patent ID: 7685297

Claim:
A method comprising: selecting at least one set of rules from a plurality of available sets of rules upon occurrence of an event relating to an access to at least one resource by at least one of a plurality of clients, each client of said plurality of clients being configured to manage another feature of a single device, said selection depending at least on one of a type of said event, a state of at least one of said clients and a system state; applying said selected at least one set of rules, resulting in a decision; and controlling an access to said at least one resource according to said decision, wherein said event is a received request from one of said clients relating to said access to at least one resource and said decision is a decision as to what extent said request is granted; and wherein said plurality of available set of rules comprises at least a mixing rulebase comprising a list of predefined ongoing activities, a list of predefined incoming requests, and a combination of each predefined ongoing activity with each predefined incoming request, wherein each combination comprises at least one rule indicating how the incoming request is handled and at least one rule indicating the implications of the incoming request on the ongoing activity.