Contact consolidation across multiple services
US11146543B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 12, 2018 |
| Grant date | Oct 12, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 11, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W12/084
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Disclosed are various approaches for retrieving contacts from a plurality of federated services. A query is received from a client application executing on a client device, the query comprising a single sign-on token that identifies a user and a character string. A number of federated services that the user has permission to access are then identified. A plurality of authentication tokens are then retrieved from an authentication service, each of the plurality of authentication tokens identifying the user to a respective one of the plurality of federated services. Next, the authentication token and the character string are provided to a respective connector for each of the plurality of federated services that the user has permission to access. A plurality of responses are received, each of the plurality of responses being received from the respective connector corresponding to each of the plurality of federated services that the user has permission to access. Then the plurality of responses are provided to the client application executing on the client device.
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