US Patent Issued to Apple on June 2 for "Partial policy evaluation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,810, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Partial policy evaluation" was invented by Torin Sandall (San Francisco), Timothy L. Hinrichs (Los Altos, Calif.) and Teemu Koponen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for evaluating a policy for authorizing an API (Application Programming Interface) call to an application. Based on a first set of parameters available before receiving the API call, the method evaluates only a portion of the policy to produce a partially evaluated policy. The method stores the partially evaluated policy in a cache. The method then receive...