Patent Document ID: 8819164
Application ID: 11897890

Base Claim:
1. A method for interfacing a client comprising a processor, a user interface, and a policy structure comprising at least one policy object and having a client policy version with a remote server comprising the policy structure having a remote server policy version, the method comprising: executing on the processor instructions configured to: select an identified policy version that is compatible with the client policy version and the remote server policy version hosted by the remote server; store a policy handle for the identified policy version; interface the policy structure of the client with the policy structure of the remote server according to the identified policy version and the policy handle; and upon identifying at least one unsupported policy object that is included in the remote server policy version, where the unsupported policy object is applicable to the client and is not included in the identified policy version: ignore the at least one unsupported policy object while applying the policy objects of the policy structure that is included in the identified policy version; and send to the user interface a message indicating the at least one unsupported policy object to be ignored by the client while applying the policy structure.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , comprising: sending an identified policy version command comprising an identified policy version value to the remote server wherein one or more objects are responsive to the identified policy version command and the one or more objects comprises at least one parameter and an object version value and wherein a first object of the one or more objects comprises an object version value that is greater than the identified policy version value; and receiving a response object from the remote server wherein the response object is the first object with at least one parameter stripped from the object.