US 11,818,174 B1
Contextual policy weighting for permissions searching
Homer Strong, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Nov. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/104,984.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01)
CPC H04L 63/20 (2013.01) [G06F 16/90335 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memories having stored therein instructions that, upon execution by one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by an interface of an identity management service, an indication to perform a permissions policy search;
determining a context associated with the permissions policy search;
calculating, based on the context, a plurality of weights for a plurality of permissions policies;
determining, based on the plurality of weights, an order for display of the plurality of permissions policies;
presenting, in a list within the interface, the plurality of permissions policies in the order that is based on the plurality of weights;
receiving, by the interface, a selection of a first permissions policy from the plurality of permissions policies; and
attaching the first permissions policy to a first identity based at least in part on the selection of the first permissions policy.