MANAGEMENT AND AUTHENTICATION IN HOSTED DIRECTORY SERVICE

• Main Authors: Rai, Krithi, Mehta, Gaurang Pankaj, Wang, Shuo, Rao, Guruprakash Bangalore, Pandya, Chirag Pravin, Palande, Sameer, Agrawal, Neelam Satish, Aung, Lawrence Hun-Gi
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.07.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A user, group, and device management and authentication system allows administrators to manage one or more directories with devices that are not associated with a domain of the one or more directories via a set of APIs. The system also allows applications and services that do not have direct access to a list of directory users to access the one or more directories. The user, group, and device management and authentication system may be an add-on system that works in conjunction with a centrally-managed directory service to provide such functionality. For example, the system may generate an access token associated with a particular directory that can be used by a service accessed by an administrator to call an API provided by the system. The API call may be translated into a directory-specific API call that can be used to perform an action in the particular directory.