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Telecommunication access management system for a packet switching network

  • US 5,113,499 A
  • Filed: 04/28/1989
  • Issued: 05/12/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for managing access to data among users and host computers in a public data communications network applied to provide data communications paths between and among the users and the host computers via communication links and transmit nodes of the network, in which the nature and degree of access by or to each user and host computer is designated in advance by respective ones of the plurality of network customers who maintain the host computers and who allow authorized user access thereto, said system comprisinga multiplicity of potential user stations,a multiplicity of host computers for compiling and furnishing data on request of users and other host computers,a multiplicity of switch means operatively associated with respective ones of said user stations and said host computers, and located at points of entry to said data communications paths of said network remote from said respective ones of said user stations and said host computers, for establishing and disconnecting a communication path through the network between a user station and a host computer to which access is requested by said user station for a communication session therewith, andaccess management means operatively associated with each of said switch means for examining requests for establishing a data communications path through said network between a user station and a host computer received by the associated one of said switch means for validation of said requests and for granting and denying the respective requests by issuance of corresponding instruction signals to said switch means, according to the nature and degree of access designated by the respective network customer.

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