US Patent Issued to Netflix on May 26 for "Systems and methods for access control policy management" (Washington, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,467, issued on May 26, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for access control policy management" was invented by David Imran Noor (Kirkland, Wash.), Allen J Collins (San Jose, Calif.) and Brandon Christopher Quan (Roanoke, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for managing access control policies for diverse database tables. The method involves consolidating access control by associating each table with a common set of access control policies, enforcing these policies to control access, and providing automated management without administrator input. The automat...