Distribution of information protection policies to client machines
First Claim
1. In a computing environment where resources are distributed, a method of obtaining policy information defining restrictions on resources distributed in the computing environment, the method comprising:
- sending a request to a server for metadata about resource protection policies at the server;
in response to the request, receiving from the server metadata about one or more resource protection polices at the server;
analyzing the metadata from the server;
based on analyzing the metadata, updating one or more resource protection policies stored at the client;
providing an indication to an application that one or more resource protection policies at the client have been updated; and
in response to providing an indication to the application that one or more resource protection policies at the client have been updated, receiving a request from the application for metadata about resource protection policies at the client.
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Abstract
One embodiment includes a method which may be practiced in a computing environment where resources are distributed. The method includes acts for obtaining policy information defining restrictions on resources distributed in the computing environment. The method includes sending a request to a server for metadata about one or more resource protection policies at the server. In response to the request, metadata about one or more resource protection polices at the server is received from the server. The metadata from the server is analyzed. Based on analyzing the metadata, one or more resource protection policies stored at the client are updated.
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19 Claims
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1. In a computing environment where resources are distributed, a method of obtaining policy information defining restrictions on resources distributed in the computing environment, the method comprising:
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sending a request to a server for metadata about resource protection policies at the server; in response to the request, receiving from the server metadata about one or more resource protection polices at the server; analyzing the metadata from the server; based on analyzing the metadata, updating one or more resource protection policies stored at the client; providing an indication to an application that one or more resource protection policies at the client have been updated; and in response to providing an indication to the application that one or more resource protection policies at the client have been updated, receiving a request from the application for metadata about resource protection policies at the client. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. In a computing environment where resources are distributed, a method of providing policy information defining restrictions on resources distributed in the computing environment, the method comprising:
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receiving a first request from a client for metadata about resource protection policies at a server; in response to the request for metadata about resource protection polices at the server, sending metadata about one or more resource protection polices at the server to the client; in response to sending metadata about resource protection polices at the server to the client, receiving a second request for one or more policies stored at the server; and in response to receiving the second request for one or more policies stored at the server, sending the one or more policies to the client, which thereby causes an update of a policy store of the client to be updated as well as notification to be provided to an application of the client that the policy store of the client has been updated. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. In a computing environment where resources are distributed, a method of providing policy information defining restrictions on resources distributed in the computing environment, the method comprising:
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a client providing an indication to an application that one or more resource protection policies at the client have been updated; receiving a request from an application for metadata about one or more resource protection policies at a client, which is provided from application in response to the indication to the application that the one or more resource protection policies at the client have been updated; in response to receiving a request from the application for metadata about one or more resource protection policies at the client that have been updated, sending metadata to the application about one or more resource protection policies at the client that have been updated; in response to sending metadata to the application about one or more resource protection policies at the client that have been updated, receiving a request for the one or more resource protection policies from the application; and in response to receiving the request for the one or more resource protection policies from the application, sending the one or more resource protection policies to the application. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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