US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Aug. 25 for "Inheritance-based access rights governance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,950, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Inheritance-based access rights governance" was invented by Ted E. Dunning (San Jose, Calif.) and Kyrylo Iun (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique includes receiving a request. The request is associated with an operation, a target path and a requestor. The process includes, responsive to the request, accessing metadata that is associated with access control governance for a data resource. The metadata is stored in a directory tree and is arranged according to a hierarchical order. The technique includes, based on...