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Uniformly accessing federated user registry topologies

  • US 10,339,153 B2
  • Filed: 04/12/2016
  • Issued: 07/02/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for standardizing identity management applications to interface seamlessly with an identity management system to facilitate a migration onto a cloud computing environment, the computer-implemented method comprising:

  • providing, by one or more processors, a first schema extension to an identity management system and a bridge component to an identity management application, wherein the bridge component delegates calls to and receives responses from one or more user registries and allows user registries to connect to the identity management application dynamically at run-time, and comprises a second schema extension to the identity management application, wherein the second schema extension extends a schema of the identity management application to enable one or more users to store data in unused fields in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) user registry, and to enable the creation of additional data fields in the LDAP user registry wherein newly created and existing properties can be stored;

    receiving, by the one or more processors, a request from an end user in a first data format associated with the identity management system;

    converting, by the one or more processors, the request from the first data format into a second data format associated with the identity management application and compatible with an application programming interface (API) provided by the identity management application;

    sending, by the one or more processors, the request in the second data format to the identity management application, through the API, for execution;

    receiving, by the one or more processors, a response in the second data format from the identity management application to the request in the second data format;

    converting, by the one or more processors, the response from the second data format into the first data format that is compatible with the identity management system, wherein the converted data is input into appropriate data entry fields in the identity management application via a data mapper and executing the converted request in the identity management application, wherein the converted data comprises a request made by the one or more end users through the identity management system enabling the identity management applications to interface seamlessly with the identity management system to facilitate a migration onto a cloud computing environment by enabling the use of identity management applications through the identity management system, without writing program code instructions for applications to interface with APIs provided by cloud platform vendors, making the applications portable across different cloud platforms; and

    returning, by the one or more processors, the converted data enabling applications to be portable across different cloud platforms associated with the response via the identity management system.

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