Patent ID: 8407760

Claim:
A method operational in a remote station with role-based access control for transitioning access rights, comprising: maintaining a role capability table in the remote station specifying centrally-defined access rights of roles that are interpretable in the remote station; receiving, at the remote station, an access request associated with a first role having access rights predefined by a central access control management module, where the first role is unknown to the remote station and not interpretable in the remote station, the access request including a role transition list that relates the first role to other centrally-defined roles, wherein at least one of the other centrally-defined roles is interpretable in the remote station; selecting, from the role transition list, a role that is interpretable in the remote station, for interpreting the first role of the access request; and granting access based on the access request associated with the first role using the access rights of the interpretable role selected from the role transition table.