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Extensible mechanism for securing objects using claims

  • US 8,990,896 B2
  • Filed: 06/24/2008
  • Issued: 03/24/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An extensible system within a computer network for providing a security claim about a first object for accessing a second object, the extensible system comprising:

  • a security broker, wherein the security broker comprises a computing system that;

    identifies at least one application associated with the first object that has information regarding the first object'"'"'s membership in a group, wherein the at least one application is one of;

    an email application and a resource management application; and

    records the at least one identified application as a registered claims provider in a dynamic set of registered claims providers;

    the dynamic set of registered claims providers, wherein the dynamic set of registered claims providers comprise a plurality of applications running on the computing system or on another computing system within the computer network, the dynamic set of registered claims providers configured to;

    receive a claims request for authenticating the first object to the second object, wherein access to the second object is limited to members of the group; and

    provide at least one security claim identifying the first object as a member of the group to the security broker; and

    the first object, wherein the first object is a client computing system within the computer network, the first object configured to;

    receive the at least one security claim; and

    provide the at least one security claim to the second object, wherein the first object is allowed access to the second object upon receipt of the at least one security claim identifying the first object as a member of the group.

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