Enterprise service-to-service trust framework
US7721322B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 22, 2006 |
| Grant date | May 18, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 1, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F21/33
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a trust framework for governing service-to-service interactions. This trust framework can provide enhanced security and/or manageability over prior systems. Merely by way of example, in some cases, an information store can be used to store information security information (such as trust information, credentials, etc.) for a variety of services across an enterprise. In other cases, the trust framework can provide authentication policies to define and/or control authentication between services (such as, for example, types of authentication credentials and/or protocols are required to access a particular service—either as a user and/or as another service—and/or types of authentication credentials and/or protocols a service may be enabled to use to access another service). Alternatively and/or additionally, the trust framework can provide authorization policies to define and/or control authorization between services.
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