MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641051571 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on April 22, for 'ai-based system for web permission risk assessment and least-privilege optimization.'
Inventor(s) include Jagadeesh; Adrija Mehrotra; and Mihika Nimje.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a system (100) for automated web permission risk assessment and least-privilege optimization. The system comprises a user interaction layer including a user device (101) and a URL submission interface (102), a website source retrieval module (201), a permission extraction module (202), a permission usage simulation module (203), a permission classification engine (204), a risk scoring engine (205), an excess permission detection module (206), and a recommendation engine (207). The system further includes a permission rules database (301), risk scoring models (302), and a reporting and visualization layer including a risk report dashboard (401). The system is configured to extract permission requests from web sources, classify permissions based on predefined sensitivity levels, compute quantitative risk scores, identify excessive permissions, and generate a modified permission set based on predefined constraints."
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