Method, system, and computer program product for facilitating communication in an interoperability network
Assigneesalesforce.com, inc.
InventorsAlexander Lerner, Michael K. Dewey
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus are described for facilitating communication among a plurality of entities via an interoperability network. Each entity has policy data corresponding thereto governing interaction with the entity via the interoperability network. A message is transmitted from a first one of the entities to a second one of the entities. The first entity has first policy data corresponding thereto and the second entity has second policy data corresponding thereto. The transmitted message was handled in the network according to combined policy data representing a combination of the first and second policy data.
Claims15
A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method, the method comprising:
- storing for each of a plurality of network nodes policy data corresponding thereto for governing interaction with at least one of the network nodes utilizing an interoperability network, wherein at least one of policy data of a first one of the network nodes and policy data of a second one of the network nodes is used for authorization;
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- merging the policy data of the first network node and the policy data of the second network node to produce a combined policy that is honored by both of the first network node and the second network node.
An apparatus system, comprising:
- a processor for:
- storing for each of a plurality of network nodes policy data corresponding thereto for governing interaction with at least one of the network nodes utilizing an interoperability network, wherein at least one of policy data of a first one of the network nodes and policy data of a second one of the network nodes is used for authorization;
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- merging the policy data of the first network node and the policy data of the second network node to produce a combined policy that is honored by both of the first network node and the second network node.
A method, comprising:
- storing for each of a plurality of network nodes policy data corresponding thereto for governing interaction with at least one of the network nodes utilizing an interoperability network, wherein at least one of policy data of a first one of the network nodes and policy data of a second one of the network nodes is used for authorization;
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- merging the policy data of the first network node and the policy data of the second network node, utilizing a processor, to produce a combined policy that is honored by both of the first network node and the second network node.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.