Secure multi-tenant cloud subscription sharing
US11722457B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 27, 2021 |
| Grant date | Aug 8, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 27, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/52
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The disclosed techniques improve the efficiency and functionality of cloud services by providing a system for sharing individual subscriptions among multiple tenants. A cloud service provider utilizes a location-based manager to retrieve a pool of subscriptions from a cloud platform. Individual subscriptions within the pool can define a set of cloud resources for a resource unit such as a server farm. The location-based manager can assign one or multiple subscriptions for a resource unit to share amongst multiple tenants. In this way, security boundaries between individual tenants can be maintained while also dramatically reducing the number of subscriptions a cloud service provider must manage. In addition, by assigning subscriptions at the granularity of resource units rather than tenants, the location-based manager can enhance the security of the cloud platform by creating a logical zone about individual resource units to serve as an additional security boundary.
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