Oracle International Corporation

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Oracle America, Inc.

Beomsuk Kim

Ajay Sondhi

Ching-Wen Chu

Uppili Srinivasan

Ravi Hingarajiya

Venkata S Evani

Sean Brydon

Rajeev Angal

Aravindan Ranganathan

Mrudul Pradeep Uchil

Subash Penumatsa

Anant D Kadam

Techniques for a resource management advice service are provided. In some examples, resource management advice and/or instructions may be provided for use with mobile devices, mobile applications, cloud applications, and/or other web-based applications. For example a mobile client may request to perform one or more resource management operations associated with a service provider. Based at least in part on the requested operation and/or the particular service provider, advice and/or instructions for managing the resource may be provided.

Mobile application, resource management advice

Techniques for managing identities are provided. In some examples, identity management, authentication, authorization, and token exchange frameworks may be provided for use with mobile devices, mobile applications, cloud applications, and/or other web-based applications. For example a mobile client may request to perform one or more identity management operations associated with an account of a service provider. Based at least in part on the requested operation and/or the particular service provider, an application programming interface (API) may be utilized to generate and/or perform one or more instructions and/or method calls for managing identity information of the service provider.

Mobile application, identity interface

Techniques are disclosed for sending, from an application executing on a device associated with a user, through a Representational State Transfer (REST)-based interface, to an authorization computer system, a request for permission to access a scope of information associated with the user. The techniques can further include, based on authentication of the user, receiving, at the device associated with the user, through the REST-based interface, a request for consent by the user to allow the application to access information that is within the scope of information associated with the user. Furthermore, the techniques can include, responsive to the device receiving consent from the user, sending, from the device associated with the user, through the REST-based interface, to the authorization computer system, the consent to allow the application to access the information for the authorization computer system to store a mapping between the application and the scope.

Using representational state transfer (REST) for consent management

A framework, which conforms to the OAuth standard, involves a generic OAuth authorization server that can be used by multiple resource servers in order to ensure that access to resources stored on those resource servers is limited to access to which the resource owner consents. Each resource server registers, with the OAuth authorization server, metadata for that resource server, indicating scopes that are recognized by the resource server. The OAuth authorization server refers to this metadata when requesting consent from a resource owner on behalf of a client application, so that the consent will be of an appropriate scope. The OAuth authorization server refers to this metadata when constructing an access token to provide to the client application for use in accessing the resources on the resource server. The OAuth authorization server uses this metadata to map issued access tokens to the scopes to which those access tokens grant access.

Multiple resource servers interacting with single OAuth server

A method to limit active sessions connecting user access to a computer network is presented. First, a request to initiate a new user session in the computer network is authenticated. The authentication is operatively conducted within a single sign-on provider. A session quota is then determined through a session quota logic of the single sign-on provider with the session quota logic retrieving a stored session quota. Then the number of active sessions is compared with the determined session quota. The determined session quota is enforced though a session quota enforcement logic of the SSO provider.

Method of session quota constraint enforcement

A method and system for resource based authentication may include, in response to a client attempting to access a protected resource of a system, implementing resource based authentication. A policy agent may intercept the client access request and redirect it to an appropriate authentication gateway module based upon authentication polices. If the protected resource is not associated with any resource specific authentication technique, the policy agent may apply a default authentication technique. If, however, the protected resource is associated with a particular resource specific authentication technique, the policy agent may apply the resource specific authentication technique without applying the default authentication technique.

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