METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENFORCING BUSINESS POLICIES

• US 20070294101A1
• Filed: 04/24/2007
• Published: 12/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ramana Yerneni, Sanjay Dalal, Sharad Thankappan
• Original Assignee: Ramana Yerneni, Sanjay Dalal, Sharad Thankappan
• Inventors: Yerneni, Ramana, Dalal, Sanjay, Thankappan, Sharad
• Application Number:
  US11/739,601
• Publication Number:
  US 20070294101A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers

Abstract

In one embodiment, there is provided a method, comprising: reading an Electronic Product Code (EPC) from a carrier associated with a product; accessing a policy associated with the product; and performing a policy enforcement operation based on the policy, wherein the policy is securely downloaded from a server on the Internet that is authoritative for an Internet domain of a legitimate provider of the product.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

reading an Electronic Product Code (EPC) from a carrier associated with a product;

accessing a policy associated with the product; and

performing a policy enforcement operation based on the policy, wherein the policy is downloaded from a server on the Internet that is authoritative for an Internet domain of a legitimate provider of the product.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the legitimate provider is selected from the group comprising an authorized supplier, distributor, and manufacturer of the product.