Access control method and device in an embedded system
First Claim
1. ) Method to control the access to objects (5) stored in a memory space of a computer system by a subject (3) stored in a program space of said system wanting to perform an operation on said objects (5), characterised in that it controls the access to said objects (5) via a dynamic attribute (8) linked to said subject (3) whose value is updated according to the present and previous status(es) of the subject.
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Abstract
This invention concerns a method to control the access to objects (5) stored in a memory space of a computer system by a subject (3) stored in a program space of said system. The subject wants to perform an operation on said objects (5). The method according to the invention controls the access to said objects (5) via a dynamic attribute (8) linked to said subject (3) whose value is updated according to the present and previous status(es) of the subject. This invention also concerns the access control device implementing the method described above.
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10 Claims
- 1. ) Method to control the access to objects (5) stored in a memory space of a computer system by a subject (3) stored in a program space of said system wanting to perform an operation on said objects (5), characterised in that it controls the access to said objects (5) via a dynamic attribute (8) linked to said subject (3) whose value is updated according to the present and previous status(es) of the subject.
- 7. ) Device to control the access of a subject (3) stored in a program space of a computer system comprising at least memory means and computation means, and wanting to perform an operation on objects (5) stored in a memory space of said system, characterised in that it comprises means to perform an access control to said objects using a dynamic attribute (8) linked to said subject (3) and placed in memory whose value is updated according to the present and previous status(es) of the subject.
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10. ) Computer program including program code instructions to execute the steps of the method according to one of claims I to 6 when said program is run in a data processing system.
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