Access control repository for providing access control of service profiles for web based solutions
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorSatheesh Kumar Krishnamoorthy
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Abstract
Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for implementing a common entitlement service through an access control repository. The access control repository is interposed between a front-end environment (i.e., a plurality of clients) and back-end resources containing a plurality of entitlement databases. During a browsing session, clients may invoke a plurality of applications each of which are configured to support different Web based solutions. To determine a customer's entitlement to a particular solution, the applications access a common repository containing entitlement information. Illustratively, the common repository is populated with entitlement information from a plurality of diversified entitlement systems.
Claims29
A method of providing entitlement services information to users, comprising:
- receiving a request for entitlement services information for a particular user;
- and
- in response to receiving the request, accessing a common entitlement services information repository;
- wherein the common entitlement services information repository associates entitlement services with products to which the entitlement services attach and with users of the products;
- wherein each of at least a portion of the plurality of users is associated with at least two products.
An entitlement services system, comprising:
- a common entitlement services information system comprising a repository associating entitlement services with products to which the entitlement services attach and with users of the products;
- wherein each of at least a portion of the plurality of users is associated with at least two products.
An entitlement services system, comprising:
- (a) a common entitlement services information system, comprising:
- a repository associating entitlement services with products to which the entitlement services attach and with users of the products;
- wherein each of at least a portion of the plurality of users is associated with at least two products;
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- an access control software component configured to access the repository in response to entitlement services information requests;
- (b) at least one server executing a plurality of Web based applications configured to issue the entitlement services information requests;
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- (c) a web server hosting a Web service providing an interface to each of the plurality of applications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.