Specializing support for a federation relationship
US8181225B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 9, 2009 |
| Grant date | May 15, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 9, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/30
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The invention provides federated functionality within a data processing system by means of a set of specialized runtimes, which are instances of an application for providing federation services to requesters. Each of the plurality of specialized runtimes provides requested federation services for selected ones of the requestors according to configuration data of respective federation relationships of the requestors with the identity provider. The configuration data is dynamically retrieved during initialization of the runtimes which allows the respective_runtime to be specialized for a given federation relationship. Requests are routed to the appropriate specialized runtime using the first requestor identity and the given federation relationship. The data, which describes each federation relationship between the identity provider and each of the plurality of requestors, is configured prior to initialization of the runtimes.
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