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Secure machine enrollment in multi-tenant subscription environment

  • US 8,819,801 B2
  • Filed: 10/31/2011
  • Issued: 08/26/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for securely enrolling a machine in a multi-tenant environment, comprising:

  • receiving a request at a multi-tenant environment from a machine to access a resource of a tenant in the multi-tenant environment that includes a token, wherein the token was previously issued to the machine by the tenant upon authentication by the tenant based on the tenant'"'"'s own authentication mechanism;

    retrieving a trust relationship previously established between the multi-tenant environment with an authentication service of the tenant;

    determining the token is valid using the retrieved trust relationship;

    determining the machine is authorized by the tenant to access the resource of the tenant using the token and the trust relationship; and

    authorizing access to the resource upon determining the machine is authenticated by the tenant.

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