Gathering, storing and using reputation information

摘要

A method and a system for collecting and maintaining historical party reputation data and for using the historical party reputation data to calculate an access decision rating and recalculating the access decision rating when the historical party reputation data has changed has a reputation updater for updating a reputation when a party's reputation has changed, a reputation storer for storing the party's reputation, an access decision rating maker for making a rating on a party's access abilities based upon the party's reputation and reputation history storage for storing a party's reputation having access decision rating storage for storing previous and present access decision storage ratings.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
collecting, using at least one computing device, reputation information of a requester, the requester comprising a first user that is requesting access to one or more assets, and the reputation information is based on at least an association of the first user with an organization and an association of the first user with one or more other users associated with one or more other organizations; storing, using the at least one computing device, the requester's reputation information; calculating, using the at least one computing device, an access decision rating based upon the requester's reputation information; storing, using the at least one computing device, the access decision rating; determining, using the at least one computing device, a change in the requester's reputation information, wherein the change comprises at least one of: a) the first user forming a new association with another organization or b) the first user forming a new association with a second user, wherein the second user is affiliated with another organization; and causing a new access decision rating to be calculated based upon the determined change in the requester's reputation information.