Controlling Access to Resources Based on Affinity Planes and Sectors

摘要

A first person (which may be a natural person, organization, brand, or other entity) has one or more affinity planes. Each affinity plane represents a distinct closeness of relationship with the first person. The first person also has one or more sectors, each of which may be associated with a domain. Each of the other people may be associated with zero or more of the first person's affinity planes and zero or more of the first person's sectors. Each of the first person's resources may be associated with zero or more of the first person's affinity planes and zero or more of the first person's sectors. A request by one of the other people to access one of the first person's resources is granted based on the overlap between the affinity planes and sectors associated with the requestor and the affinity planes and sectors associated with the requested resource.

主权项

1. A method for use with a system, wherein the method is performed by at least one computer processor executing computer program instructions stored on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium, the system comprising:
a plurality of affinity planes associated with a first person P0; affinity plane association data representing a plurality of associations between the plurality of affinity planes and a plurality of resources and people; and the method comprising: (1) identifying, for each of a plurality of people Pn, an affinity contribution for person Pn in relation to the first person P0, based on at least one frequency of occurrence of person Pn in person P0's affinity planes; (2) summing the affinity contributions for the plurality of people Pn to produce an affinity total; and (3) identifying an affinity index for each of the plurality of people Pn by dividing person Pn's affinity contribution by the affinity total.