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Onboarding resources to an identity management system

  • US 9,015,204 B2
  • Filed: 07/15/2009
  • Issued: 04/21/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2009
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of onboarding in an identity management system, comprising:

  • discovering native object fields for identity management, wherein the fields are in an object schema of a resource to be onboarded into the identity management system;

    marking fields in the object schema of the resource with semantic markers corresponding with fields of provisioning objects in the identity management system, wherein the semantic markers are organized in an ontology having a plurality of specificity levels of increasing specificity to provide generic to specific relations of definition between the semantic markers;

    mapping the fields in the object schema of the resource to one or more provisioning objects of an identity management system profile including,directly matching the fields of the object schema having the same markers as the fields of the provisioning objects for a selected specificity level of the plurality of specificity levels in the ontology to create matched fields and unmatched fields;

    increasing the specificity level of the selected specificity level to an increased specificity level; and

    directly matching the unmatched fields of the object schema having the same markers as the fields of the provisioning objects for the increased specificity level; and

    enabling deployment from a generated deployment mapping from mapping the fields to add the resource to the identity management system.

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