US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 21 for "Dynamically changing access rules for context-sensitive access control" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,304, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamically changing access rules for context-sensitive access control" was invented by Alan Byrne (Mulhuddart, Ireland), Paul Connolly (Castleknock, Ireland) and Bryan D. Osenbach (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and computer program product obtains user data relating to a plurality of system users, who have previously been granted access to a resource in a context without complying with a ruleset defining criteria for automatically accessing the resource in the context. A combination of two or more user data pro...