ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,953, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AtScale Inc. (Boston).
"Embedded and distributable policy enforcement" was invented by Jason L. Shiffer (Wilmot, N.H.), Kaushik Shanadi (Washington), Dustin W. Webber (Dorchester, Mass.) and Patrick J. Toole (Wellington, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device for enforcing an authorization policy to a database includes identifying an authorization policy based on declarative designations of a set of objects, subjects and actions affected by an access request, and distributing the executable entity to a plurality if endpoints of a network of users. Each endpoint of the plurality of...