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US 2006/0224601 A1Published application
Proxy policy
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsMichael Brown, Neil Adams, Herb Little
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Abstract
In a system with a policy server, a first device able to communicate with the policy server and a second device able to communicate with the first device and unable to communicate with the policy server, the first device is to act as a policy proxy. The policy server may communicate to the first device a policy for the second device, and the first device may communicate the policy to the second device.
Claims28
A system comprising:
- a policy server;
- a first device able to communicate with said policy server;
- a second device able to communicate with said first device and unable to communicate with said policy server,
- wherein said first device is to make, on its own initiative, a request of said policy server, where said request is for said policy server to send to said first device a policy for said second device, and
- wherein said first device is to send all or a portion of said policy to said second device.
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A first device comprising:
- a first communication interface through which said first device is able to communicate with a policy server;
- and
- a second, different, communication interface through which said first device is able to communicate with a second device that is unable to communicate with said policy server,
- wherein said first device is to make, on its own initiative a request of said policy server, wherein said request is for said policy server to send to said first device a policy for said second device.
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14-16. (canceled)
A method in a first device, the method comprising:
- notifying a policy server that said first device is able to communicate with a second device which is unable to communicate with said policy server;
- making, on the initiative of said first device, a request of said policy server, where said request is for said policy server to send to said first device a policy for said second device;
- receiving said policy at said first device;
- and
- transmitting all or a portion of said policy from said first device to said second device.
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18-21. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.