US 12,259,992 B2
Centralized access control for cloud relational database management system resources
Yueren Wang, Redmond, WA (US); Elnata Degefa, Sammamish, WA (US); Andreas Wolter, Redmond, WA (US); Steven Richard Gott, Bellevue, WA (US); Nitish Gupta, Seattle, WA (US); Raghav Kaushik, Kirkland, WA (US); Rakesh Khanduja, Bangalore (IN); Shafi Ahmad, Bangalore (IN); Dilli Dorai Minnal Arumugam, Campbell, CA (US); Pankaj Prabhakar Naik, Redmond, WA (US); and Nikolas Christopher Ogg, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/428,402.
Application 18/428,402 is a continuation of application No. 17/401,165, filed on Aug. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,934,548.
Claims priority of application No. 202141023721 (IN), filed on May 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0241980 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 16/95 (2019.01); G06F 12/0875 (2016.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 16/957 (2019.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/6218 (2013.01) [G06F 12/0875 (2013.01); G06F 15/17331 (2013.01); G06F 16/9574 (2019.01); G06F 2212/45 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
providing, from a central policy storage to a first database server located remotely from the central policy storage, an external access policy corresponding to access conditions for a user to access resources of the first database server;
providing, to an administrator device, a user interface (UI) portal comprising a policy management options for creation and modification of the external access policy;
receiving, at the central policy storage, information associated with at least one of a policy creation or a policy modification provided via the UI portal for the external access policy;
updating, at the central policy storage, the external access policy based on the received information; and
providing, to the first database server, the updated external access policy to enable the first database server to update the access conditions for the user to access resources of the first database server.