US 9,426,156 B2Granted

System and method for facilitating federated user provisioning through a cloud-based system

AssigneeCare Innovations, LLC

InventorsKevin Hebert, Jason Smith, David Martin, Jason Furgison

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Abstract

The disclosure relates to systems and methods for provisioning a new user to a cloud-based system through a pre-registration process where the cloud-based system generates a tokenized resource identifier based on the user's registration information provided by an external service provider and through a registration process where the user accesses the cloud-based system using the tokenized resource identifier and the cloud-based system completes the registration of the user when the user's registration information in the cloud-based system is verified against the corresponding registration information maintained by the external service provider. Once the registration is complete, data related to the registered user may be synchronized between the cloud-based system and the external service provider.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a cloud server, cause the cloud server to:

obtain, by a pre-registration module, registration information associated with a user, wherein the registration information comprises an activation key;
generate, by the pre-registration module, a tokenized resource identifier in a tokenized URL element based on the registration information, the tokenized resource identifier identifying the location of one or more resources in the cloud server, wherein the tokenized resource identifier comprises an embedded pre-registration token that is used to grant access to the one or more resources in the cloud server, the pre-registration token comprising the activation key used to verify the user and grant access to the one or more resources;
provide, by the pre-registration module, the tokenized URL element with the tokenized resource identifier to the user in the form of a link;
obtain, by a registration module, the pre-registration token embedded in the tokenized URL element with the tokenized resource identifier when the user accesses the one or more resources in the cloud server using the link;
determine, by the registration module, whether to grant access to the one or more resources based on the pre-registration token by comparing and verifying the obtained pre-registration token from the registration module to the pre-registration token in generated tokenized resource identifier from the pre-registration module;
grant, by the registration module, access to the one or more resources based on the determination and verification that access to the one or more resources should be granted based on the pre-registration token;
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register, by the registration module, the user with the cloud server using the one or more resources.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/083,848Filed 19 Nov 2013
Published: US 2015/0143468 A121 May 2015
Granted: 23 Aug 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04L 63/10
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for controlling access to devices or network resources
G06F 21/45
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: structures or tools for the administration of authentication
H04L 63/06
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for supporting key management in a packet data network
H04L 67/1001
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers