Verifying the terms of use for access to a service
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsTaku Aratsu, Daisuke Hayashi, Tomohiro Shimizu
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Abstract
Provided are techniques in which a document accompanying a service is acquired, a natural language analysis is performed on the acquired document, a determination is made from the results of the natural language analysis whether an item defined in the access control policy is found in the acquired document and, when the item defined in the access control policy is found in the acquired document, the access control policy is referenced and access to the service controlled accordingly.
Claims9
An apparatus for controlling access to a service provided by a server device using computer processing, the method comprising:
- a processor coupled to a client computing device requesting a service from a server computing device supplying the service;
- a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium coupled to the processor;
- and
- logic, stored on the computer-readable recording medium and executed on the processor, for:
- acquiring, by the client computing device, a document provided by the server computing device, wherein the document comprises terms of service associated with the service;
- performing, by the client computing device, natural language analysis on the acquired document, the natural language processing comprising:
- annotating a term in the document with a attribute value;
- and
- matching the attribute value with an attribute value of an access control policy:
- determining, by the client computing device, from the results of the natural language analysis that an item defined in the access control policy is in the acquired document;
- and
- refusing access by the client computing device to the service on the server computing device in response to the determining.
A computer programming product for controlling access to a service using computer processing, the computer programming product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium;
- and
- logic, stored on the computer-readable recording medium for execution on a processor coupled to a client computing device requesting a service from a server computing device supplying the service, for:
- acquiring, by the client computing device, a document provided by the server computing device, wherein the document comprises terms of service associated with the service;
- performing, by the client computing device, natural language analysis on the acquired document, the natural language processing comprising:
- annotating a term in the document with an attribute value;
- and
- matching the attribute value with an attribute value of an access control policy;
- determining, by the client computing device, from the results of the natural language analysis that an item defined in the access control policy is in the acquired document;
- and
- refusing access by the client computing device to the service on the computing device in response to the determining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.