Communication access control system

• US 9,160,750 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2011
• Issued: 10/13/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Kapaleeswaran, Viswanathan, Saxena, Amitabh
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Krisna
• Application Number:
  US14/345,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351888A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,450 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]

Abstract

A communication access control system includes a messaging service facility and a computing system. The computing system has a permanent memory and hosts a plurality of access control cells (each having an input and an output address); a messaging service to send messages between at least some of the access control cells; and a control service to define a link. The link is selected from a C-link, an F-link, and a Q-link. The C-link connects the output address of a first read-write cell of the access control cells to the input address of a second read-write cell of the access control cells. The F-link connects a forwarder address to the input address of at least one of the access control cells. The Q-link connects the output address of at least one of the access control cells to a queue address.

Claims

1. A communication access control system, comprising:

a messaging service facility; and

a computing system of the messaging service facility, the computing system having a permanent memory and hosting;

a plurality of access control cells, each of the access control cells having an input address and an output address;

a messaging service to send messages between at least some of the plurality of access control cells; and

a control service to define a link selected from;

a C-link to connect the output address of a first read-write cell of the plurality of access control cells to the input address of a second read-write cell of the plurality of access control cells;

an F-link to connect a forwarder address with the input address of at least one of the plurality of access control cells; and

a Q-link to connect the output address of at least one of the plurality of access control cells to a queue address.

2. The communication access control system as defined in claim 1, further comprising a group structure represented by some of the plurality of access control cells, at least one forwarder address, and at least one queue address, wherein connections within the group structure are made via any of the C-link, the F-link, or the Q-link.

3. The communication access control system as defined in claim 2 wherein the group structure includes a group manager cell having a group-management input address and a group-management output address, and wherein the group-management input and output addresses connect the some of the plurality of access control cells that are part of the group structure.

4. The communication access control system as defined in claim 1 wherein the messaging service includes a forwarder that is associated with the forwarder address to copy a message received at the forwarder address to any input address connected to the forwarder address via the F-link, wherein the forwarder is hosted on the computer system having the permanent memory.

5. The communication access control system as defined in claim 1 wherein the messaging service includes a queue that is associated with the queue address to retrieve a message received from any output address connected to the queue address via the Q-link, wherein the queue is hosted on the computer system having the permanent memory.

6. A method for controlling messaging, comprising:

receiving, via a processor at a messaging service facility, a request to make a connection within the messaging service facility; and

via the processor, creating a link to make the connection, the link being selected from;

a C-link to connect an output address of a first access control cell to an input address of a second access control cell, wherein each of the first and second access control cells are read-write cells;

an F-link to connect a forwarder address to an input address of an access control cell, both the forwarder address and the input address being known by a user requesting the connection; and

a Q-link to connect an output address of an access control cell to a queue address, both the output address and the queue address being known by a user requesting the connection;

wherein the access control cells and the links are hosted on a computer system having the processor and permanent memory.

7. The method as defined in claim 6 wherein the request is to create the C-link, and wherein the request includes an input address and the output address of the first access control cell and the input address of the second access control cell.

8. The method as defined in claim 6 wherein the request is to create the F-link, and wherein the request includes the forwarder address and the input address of the access control cell.

9. The method as defined in claim 6 wherein the request is to create the Q-link, and wherein the request includes the queue address and the output address of the access control cell.

10. The method as defined in claim 6, further comprising:

receiving, via the processor, a query to discover links in the messaging service facility; and

any of;

generating, via the processor, a list of all input addresses linked to the forwarder address when the forwarder address is supplied with the query;

generating, via the processor, a list of all input addresses linked to a cell when the cell'"'"'s input address and output address are supplied with the query;

or

generating, via the processor, a list of all output addresses linked to the queue address when the queue address is supplied with the query.

11. The method as defined in claim 6, further comprising:

receiving, via the processor, a request to create a group; and

via the processor, creating the group per the request utilizing any of the C-link, the F-link, or the Q-link.

12. The method as defined in claim 11 wherein creating the group is accomplished by:

generating a read-write cell for the group;

generating a read-write cell for each of;

a writer of the group and a reader of the group;

creating a C-link from the read-write cell for the writer to the read-write cell for the group so that messages coming from an output address of the read-write cell for the writer will be sent to an input address of the read-write cell for the group;

creating a C-link from the read-write cell for the group to the read-write cell for the reader so that message coming from an output address of the read-write cell for the group will be sent to an input address of the read-write cell for the reader;

transmitting an output address of the read-write cell for the reader to a read cell of the reader; and

transmitting an input address of the read-write cell for the writer to a read cell of the writer.

13. The method as defined in claim 11 wherein creating the group is accomplished by:

creating respective F-links from the forwarder address to input addresses of at least two different access control cells; and

creating respective Q-links from the output addresses of the at least two different access control cells to the queue addresses associated with respective receiving devices.

14. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions embodied thereon, the computer readable instructions, when executed by a processor of a messaging service facility, cause the processor to:

receive a request to make a connection within the messaging service facility; and

create a link to make the connection, the link being selected from;

a C-link to connect an output address of a first access control cell to an input address of a second access control cell, wherein each of the first and second access control cells are read-write cells;

an F-link to connect an input address of an access control cell to a forwarder address that is known by a user requesting the connection; and

a Q-link to connect an output address of an access control cell to a queue address that is known by a user requesting the connection;

wherein the access control cells and the links are embodied on the non-transitory, tangible computer readable medium.

15. The computer program product as defined in claim 14, further comprising computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor of the messaging service facility, that cause the processor to:

receive a query to discover links in the messaging service facility; and

any of;

generate a list of all input addresses linked to the forwarder address when the forwarder address is supplied with the query;

generate a list of all input addresses linked to a cell when the cell'"'"'s input address and output address are supplied with the query;

or

generate a list of all output addresses linked to the queue address when the queue address is supplied with the query.