Policy Enforcement
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1. An enforcement system for enforcing policies with regard to service requests comprising:
- a plurality of enforcer agents adapted to enforce policies;
at least one explorer agent adapted to evaluate policy enforcement capabilities available to the enforcement system; and
a policy decision point adapted to identify the policies that need to be enforced for a service request and to pass this information to at least one enforcer agent (32) to enforce the identified policies.
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Abstract
An enforcement system may include a policy decision point and an adaptive grid. Requests for service from users are passed to the policy decision point which uses enforcer agents in the adaptive grid to enforce policies by selecting from available policy enforcement points. The adaptive grid may also include explorer agents for evaluating enforcement capabilities available to the enforcement system.
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1. An enforcement system for enforcing policies with regard to service requests comprising:
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a plurality of enforcer agents adapted to enforce policies; at least one explorer agent adapted to evaluate policy enforcement capabilities available to the enforcement system; and a policy decision point adapted to identify the policies that need to be enforced for a service request and to pass this information to at least one enforcer agent (32) to enforce the identified policies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of enforcing policies, comprising:
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accepting a service request; analysing the request by a policy decision point to shortlist a set of policies that need to be enforced for the request; selecting at least one enforcer agent from a plurality of enforcer agents to enforce policies with respect to the service request and passing information from the service request to the or each selected enforcer agent; selecting in the or each selected enforcer agent at least one policy enforcement capability to enforce policies with respect to the service request. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of operating a policy enforcement system, comprising:
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introducing a new policy enforcement point and corresponding semantic web service into the policy enforcement system; identifying the capabilities of the new policy enforcement point with an explorer agent by querying the corresponding semantic web service; and updating an enforcement database with the identified capabilities, the enforcement database including information about the policy enforcement points available in the policy enforcement system. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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