Delegation within a computing environment
OwnerMichael John Wrayinventor
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Abstract
In one implementation, a delegation system authenticates, at a first time, a first user relative to a computing environment, and receives, at a second time after the first time, a request for the first user to act within the computing environment as a second user. The delegation system also determines, in response to the request, whether the first user is authorized to act as the second user within the computing environment. The delegation system then receives an action request from the first user, identifies the second user as an effective user for the action request; and provides the action request to the computing environment,
Claims18
A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed at a processor cause the processor to:
- authenticate, at a first time, a first user relative to a computing environment;
- receive, at a second time after the first time, a request for the first user to act within the computing environment as a second user;
- determine, in response to the request, whether the first user is authorized to act as the second user within the computing environment;
- receive an action request from the first user;
- identify the second user as an effective user for the action request;
- and
- provide the action request to the computing environment.
A delegation system, comprising:
- an authentication module to authenticate a first user relative to a computing environment;
- an authorization module to determine whether the first user is authorized to perform an action as a second user within the computing environment;
- and
- an action module to receive an action request identifying the action from the first user, to identify the second user as an effective user for the action request, and to provide the action request to the computing environment if the authorization module determines that the first user is authorized to perform the action as the second user.
The system of 8, wherein the action module is configured to determine whether the second user is authorized for the action before performing the action within the computing environment.
A delegation method, comprising:
- authenticating a first user relative to a computing environment;
- determining, independent of a credential associated with a second user, that the first user is authorized to act within the computing environment as the second user;
- and
- identifying the second user as an effective user for action requests received from the first user to attribute actions associated with the action requests within the computing environment to the second user;
- and
- providing the action requests to the computing environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.