Token transformation filter for the service mesh
US11917064B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 3, 2021 |
| Grant date | Feb 27, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 17, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L63/0428
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The disclosed technology teaches granular sharing of parts of an authorization token among individual microservices in a microservice chain, including packaging in an encrypted token base information used by the chain, overall, and respective individual portions of information for respective microservices in the chain. Also disclosed is receiving the token, with a service request message, at an entry point to the chain, decrypting the base information and verifying authorization for initiation of the service chain with an authorization service. Further disclosed is routing the service request and the encrypted token among the microservices in the chain, and at each respective microservice, applying a local transform to a respective individual portion of information and making the individual portion of information available for processing at the respective microservice, and the respective microservice consuming its own individual portion of information without having access to additional individual portions of information directed to other microservices.
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