System and method for access control of network devices across multi-platform access lists
View Patent ↗A system for sharing a device between two independent software platforms and for access control of a network device across the two independent software platforms is provided. The system has a first computing device operating on a first software platform for authenticating at least a first user and accessing a first user's access list having at least one address of a second user. The system also has a second computing device operable with the same first user and a second different software platform. A destination across the first and the second software platforms is mapped to selectively control the device by the second user from the first user's access list with the second user operating on the second computing device.
1. A system for sharing a device comprising:
a first computing device operating on a first software platform for authenticating at least a first user and accessing a first user's access list having at least one address of a second user;
a second computing device operable with the first user and a second different software platform: and
mapping a destination across the first and the second software platforms to selectively control the device associated with the first user from the first user's access list with the first user operating on the second computing device with an application programming interface (API) associated with at least one of the first and the second software platforms.
2. A method of controlling a network device operable on a first software platform from a second software platform using an access list associated with the first or the second software platforms, the method comprising:
providing a system comprising one or more processors, wherein said first software platform is operable on said system;
accessing the first software platform having a first access list;
authenticating a first user, using the first access list on the first software platform;
mapping a path of at least a second user using the first access list in the first software platform by linking the first software platform and the second software platform using an application programming interface of at least one of the first and the second software platform;
accessing the second software platform and authenticating a second user; and
providing an output of the network device to the second user through an electronic output device, using at least one of or both the second software platform and the first software platform;
managing the network device by controlling the network device with the first or the second software platform.
3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising mapping the path of at least a third user operating on a third software platform operable on another system comprising one or more processors, wherein said mapping of the path is performed by first access list in the first platform or a second access list in the second software platform by linking the first or the second software platform and the third software platform using the application programming interface of at least one of the first, the second or the third software platform.