Appeal No. 2003-0100
Application No. 09/298,663
issuing data class and access authorizations in response to the
requests. The principals present the data class and access
authorizations to storage devices so that the principals are
allowed access to the data classes on the storage devices.
Independent claim 1 calls for “selectively issuing data class and
access authorizations” to principals in response to requests for
data access. Claim 13 calls for “selectively issuing tickets in
response to the requests.”
Appellants present a reasonable case by indicating that each
storage system 102 of Wobber “includes a fairly powerful
processor that is indeed aware of data objects, not just data
blocks as is the case with SANs” (principal brief, page 3). It
is clear, from Wobber (e.g., column 6, lines 51-52) that each
object therein has an associated access control list (ACL).
Since each object already has a list of what principals are to be
given what access, there is credence to appellants’ position that
each node of Wobber “is already aware of what data a particular
principal is allowed to access and in what way, by means of the
ACLs that are associated with each object” (principal brief,
page 4, first paragraph).
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