Patent ID: 7856652

Claim:
An access control management method which limits a request from an application program to access resources for use in realizing functions owned by a terminal device mounted with an operating system and said application program, comprising the steps of: in said terminal device, storing at least one access policy in a storage region in advance, externally receiving environment information which is information that can specify an environment in which said terminal device is placed, said environmental information being selected from a group comprising a unique identifier for a position unitarily assigned to a specific location, satellite position information, and kind of environment, requesting, to a conversion device which provides said terminal device with correspondence between environment information and access policies, specific information which specifies an access policy that indicates for which resource from which application program access should be limited and that is adapted to received environment information, said conversion device is remotely located from the terminal device and provides a rewritable table for setting corresponding relationships between the environmental information and an access policy identifier and converts the environmental information to the access policy identifier by using said rewritable table, said access policy identifier is said specific information, selecting an access policy indicated by specific information provided by said conversion device from said storage unit which stores at least one access policy, and executing access control of limiting an access request from said application program according to a selected access policy.