Client Side Security Management for an Operations, Administrations and Maintenance System for Wireless Clients

• US 20130326581A1
• Filed: 08/08/2013
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casey S. Bahr
• Original Assignee: Casey S. Bahr
• Inventors: Bahr, Casey S.
• Application Number:
  US13/962,131
• Publication Number:
  US 20130326581A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/084 using delegated authorisation, e.g. open authorisation [OAuth] protocol
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

An Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OA&M) 16 provides security for managed resources on a wireless client device 10 at many levels of granularity, from the entire device, to subsystems, to software and hardware components, services and applications, down to individual attributes.

Claims

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. A method, comprising:

securing access to managed objects within one or more managed object databases in a wireless device at different levels of granularity; and

setting policies for authentication and encryption for access to the managed objects in the one or more managed object databases.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to each of the one or more managed object databases to which a policy object is associated.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to a specific managed object database.

29. The method of claim 26, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed object collections that represent an entire managed resource.

30. The method of claim 26, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed object collections that may represent a subset of a managed resource.

31. The method of claim 26, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed objects.

32. The method of claim 26, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific attributes of managed objects.

33. The method of claim 26, wherein the security management comprises a layered system for to the management of platform resources.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the platform resources to be managed on the wireless device are instantiated in software as Managed Objects.

35. The method of claim 26, further comprising providing a security policy that allows for an adjustment of authentication and encryption security policies.

36. The method of claim 26, further comprising defining and maintaining configuration data.

37. The method of claim 36, further comprising capturing and delivering platform events at the wireless device.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein a platform event comprises an instantaneous change to a managed object.

39. The method of claim 36, further comprising an account management module to record billing information and to communicate session detail records at the wireless device.

40. An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

securing access to managed objects within one or more managed object databases in a wireless device at different levels of granularity; and

setting policies for authentication and encryption for access to the managed objects in the one or more managed object databases.

41. The article of manufacture of claim 40, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to each of the one or more managed object databases to which a policy object is associated.

42. The article of manufacture of claim 40, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to a specific managed object database.

43. The article of manufacture of claim 40, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed object collections that represent an entire managed resource.

44. The article of manufacture of claim 40, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed object collections that may represent a subset of a managed resource.

45. The article of manufacture of claim 40, wherein the different levels of granularity include applying security policies to specific managed objects.