Patent ID: 7260831

Claim:
A method for enhancing the capabilities of a CORBA Resource Access Decision Facility comprising: populating a cache only with permissive resource access decisions obtained from the CORBA Resource Access Decision Facility; when a permissive resource access decision is present in the cache, retrieving the permissive access decision from the cache and not requesting an access decision from the CORBA Resource Access Decision Facility; and requesting a permissive resource access decision from the CORBA Resource Access Decision Facility only when the access decision is not present in the cache; wherein the action of requesting an access decision from the CORBA Resource Access Decision Facility comprises: requesting a permissive access decision from the CORBA Resource Access Decision Facility only when the permissive access decision is not present in the cache; and requesting an access decision which comprises restraints or overrides from the CORBA Resource Access Decision Facility without first checking the cache.