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Apparatus, system, and method for automated identity relationship maintenance

US7958031B2 · kind B2 · utility

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28Claims

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Rashmi Hunt · Palo Alto, US
Zeenat Kulkarni · Foster City, US
Jose Angel Martinez Rodriguez · Menlo Park, US
Edwin Sapugay · Foster City, US
Olga Tikhonova · San Francisco, US
Hai Zhao · Huizhou, CN

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 13, 2005
Grant date	Jun 7, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 18, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/288
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically maintaining identity relationships among disparate enterprise information systems. The apparatus comprises a synchronization hub comprising an identity relationship repository, a relationship service module, a consistency module, and an adjustment module. The relationship service is configured to access a target relationship entry using a unique key from a source business object, wherein the source business object is representative of changes made in a source enterprise information system. The various components and modules of the synchronization hub cooperate to determine identity relationships that need updating and to propagate identity relationship changes to one or more destination enterprise information servers.

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