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Securing services and intra-service communications

  • US 9,985,974 B2
  • Filed: 03/09/2017
  • Issued: 05/29/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by a security service, from a service provider that is separate from the security service, a registration for a service provided by the service provider, the registration identifying one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) related to the service;

    receiving, by the security service, from a first service consumer and a second service consumer, a respective request to access the service, the respective requests including an identification of the one or more APIs related to the service to be accessed by the first service consumer and by the second service consumer, the one or more APIs providing a quantity of information in response to access requests from service consumers; and

    defining an access policy limiting the first service consumer and the second service consumer access to the one or more APIs related to the service, and the access policy defining a subset of the quantity of information available to the first service consumer and to the second service consumer from the service provider via the one or more APIs, with the subset being different for the first service consumer and for the second service consumer and associated with a third party separate from the first and second service consumer.

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