Patent ID: 8166515

Claim:
A computer implemented method of centralized management of access permissions for one or more classes of unique class identifier devices on each of a plurality of client terminals, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, at a server, a unique class identifier for a class of unique class identifier devices, wherein the unique class identifier is a custom identifier that is unknown to the server; (b) determining whether there is a group policy set for the unique class identifier; (c) upon determining that there is no group policy set for the unique class identifier, presenting one or more policy options for setting the group policy for the unique class identifier; (d) receiving a selection of at least one of the one or more policy options; (e) setting one or more access permissions based on the selection of the one or more policy options for access to the class of unique class identifier devices for each of the plurality of client terminals via a central computing system environment, wherein the access permissions are associated with the unique class identifier; and (f) transmitting the one or more access permissions set in said step (e) via the central computing system environment to each of the plurality of client terminals.