Implicit population of access control lists

摘要

Communication applications may include lists of users with which a user of the application communicates. If two users of a communications application each include the other user on their user lists, an implicit trust may be established between the users. For example, if user A includes user B in her list and user B includes user A in his list, then it may be determined that each user knows and/or trusts the other user. As a result, a connection or communications pathway may be automatically created between the client devices of the users to facilitate communications between the users based on the implicit trust.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
logging, by a server, a first client device into athe server; logging, by the server, a second client device into the server; accessing, usingby the server, a first user list associated with a first user of the first client device; accessing, usingby the server, a second user list associated with a second user of the second client device, wherein the first user list and the second user list are maintained separately from one another; analyzing, usingby the server, the accessed first user list to determine whether an identifier of the second user is included in the first user list; analyzing, usingby the server, the accessed second user list to determine whether an identifier of the first user is included in the second user list; and regulating, usingby the server, a communications pathwaycommunications between the first client device and the second client device based on both the determination of whether the identifier of the first user is included on the second user list and the determination of whether the identifier of the second user is included on the first user list.