Sensor sharing control

摘要

A mechanism is provided for sensor sharing control dynamically. One or more sensor use permissions are received from one or more sensor provider terminals. For each sensor use permission, a sensor use permission is recorded in an authorization policy thereby forming a set of authorization policies. A use request is recorded for sensor use request information received from a sensor user terminal in a request policy. A search is performed for any authorization policy in the set of authorization policies that matches the request policy. Responsive to identifying the authorization policy that matches the request policy, a list of sensors included in the sensor use permissions of an authorization policy that matches the request policy is created. The list of sensors is transmitted to the sensor user terminal, where the search is performed again dynamically when the request policy or one of the set of authorization policies is changed.

主权项

1. A sensor sharing control apparatus comprising:
means for a use request processing unit to receive sensor use request information from a sensor user terminal; means for the use request processing unit to record a use request in a request policy and to notify a sensor searching unit that the request policy has been recorded; means for a use permission processing unit to receive sensor use permission information from a sensor provider terminal; means for the use permission processing unit to record a use permission in an authorization policy and to notify the sensor searching unit that the authorization policy has been recorded; means for the sensor searching unit to search for any authorization policy that matches the request policy in response to reception of the notification that the request policy or the authorization policy has been recorded; and means for creating a list of sensors included in authorization policies matched with the request policy; and means for transmitting the list to the sensor user terminal recorded in the request policy; wherein the searching means is configured to perform the search again dynamically when the request policy or the authorization policy is changed; wherein the request policy includes: a sensor type indicating a type of sensor being requested; a control level indicating a degree of control being requested; a requested location of a sensor; a requested function of a sensor; and one or more user attributes indicating a category to which a user of the sensor user terminal belongs; wherein the one or more user attributes include gender, age, address, occupation, and place of work of the user.