System and method for provisioning resources to users based on policies, roles, organizational information, and attributes
First Claim
1. A method for provisioning users with resources, the method comprising the steps of:
- establishing a set of attributes, organizational information, and user roles;
defining a plurality of resource provisioning policies based on selected attributes, organizational information, and user roles;
receiving attribute information, organizational information, and user role information for a particular user, resource, or database;
determining which resource provisioning policies are applicable to the user based on the received user role information, organizational information, and attribute information; and
provisioning the user with resources based on the applicable resource provisioning policies, the resources including at least one hard resource;
wherein said plurality of resource provisioning policies are defined utilizing decision statements that allow irrelevant steps to be bypassed.
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Abstract
A method for provisioning users with resources is disclosed. The method includes the steps of establishing a set of attributes, organizational information, and user roles, and defining a plurality of resource provisioning policies based on selected attributes and user roles. The method also includes the steps of receiving attribute information, organizational information, and user role information for a particular user or resource, determining which resource access policies are applicable to the user based on the received user role information and attribute information, and provisioning the user with resources based on the applicable resource access policies. The resources to be provisioned include “hard” resources, such as telephones, computers, personal digital assistants, desks, chairs and the like, as well as “soft” resources. such as e-mail and voice mail accounts, application programs, databases, files, folders, the like.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for provisioning users with resources, the method comprising the steps of:
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establishing a set of attributes, organizational information, and user roles;
defining a plurality of resource provisioning policies based on selected attributes, organizational information, and user roles;
receiving attribute information, organizational information, and user role information for a particular user, resource, or database;
determining which resource provisioning policies are applicable to the user based on the received user role information, organizational information, and attribute information; and
provisioning the user with resources based on the applicable resource provisioning policies, the resources including at least one hard resource;
wherein said plurality of resource provisioning policies are defined utilizing decision statements that allow irrelevant steps to be bypassed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for provisioning users with resources, the system comprising:
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memory for storing a set of attributes, organizational information, and user roles, a plurality of resource provisioning policies based on selected attributes, organizational information, and user roles, and attribute information and user role information for a particular user or resource; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory and an organizational network, the processors programmed for determining which resource provisioning policies are applicable to a particular user based on the stored user role information, organizational information, and attribute information, and provisioning the user with resources based on the applicable resource provisioning policies, wherein the resources include at least one hard resources;
wherein the plurality of resource provisioning policies utilize decision statements that allow irrelevant steps to be bypassed. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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