Connection management service
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsWilliam Trost, Craig Harvey, Harvey Cary
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Abstract
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing and using a connection management service. A connection management service can receive a connection request that requests a connection between a requestor and a distributed network. The connection management service can identify a connector to provide the connection between the requestor and the distributed network. The connection management service can provide, to the requestor, an object corresponding to the connector. The requestor can invoke the object to connect to the distributed network.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a processor executing a connection management service, a connection request that requests a connection between a requestor that generated the connection request and a resource that operates on a distributed network;
- determining, by the processor, that authentication is required to identify and to provide a connector that provides the connection between the requestor and the distributed network;
- obtaining, by the processor, credentials associated with the requestor;
- providing, by the processor, the credentials to an authentication service for the authentication;
- obtaining, by the processor, a decision from the authentication service;
- identifying, by the processor, the connector;
- and
- providing, by the processor and directed to the requestor, an object that corresponds to the connector, wherein the requestor invokes the object to connect to the distributed network.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising
- receiving a connection request that requests a connection between a requestor and a resource that operates on a distributed network,
- determining that authentication is required to identify and to provide a connector that provides the connection between the requestor and the distributed network,
- obtaining credentials associated with the requestor,
- providing the credentials to an authentication service for the authentication, and
- obtaining a decision from the authentication service,
- identifying the connector, and
- providing, directed to the requestor, an object that corresponds to the connector, wherein the requestor invokes the object to connect to the distributed network.
A computer storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a connection request that requests a connection between a requestor and a resource that operates on a distributed network;
- determining that authentication is required to identify and to provide a connector that provides the connection between the requestor and the distributed network;
- obtaining credentials associated with the requestor;
- providing the credentials to an authentication service for the authentication;
- obtaining a decision from the authentication service;
- identifying the connector;
- and
- providing, directed to the requestor, an object that corresponds to the connector, wherein the requestor invokes the object to connect to the distributed network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.