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Stack-based access control

  • US 20020174224A1
  • Filed: 05/13/2002
  • Published: 11/21/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/1997
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system that regulates access to resources requested by an operation executing on a computer, the operation invoking a plurality of methods that operate upon code during execution, the system comprising:

  • a policy file that stores permissions for each of the resources, the permissions authorizing types of access to the resource based on a source of the code and an executor of the code;

    a call stack that stores the methods and executors in an order of invocation by the operation; and

    an execution unit that grants access to the resource when the types of access authorized by the permissions of all of the methods and executors on the call stack encompass the access requested by the operation.

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