International Business Machines Corporation

Hill-rom Services, Inc.

David O Melgar

Ajamu Akinwunmi Wesley

Anthony Joseph Nadalin

Barry Douglas Atkins

Jennifer A Gunn

Darren S Hudgins

Patrick D Harrison

Bita Akhlaghi

William B Richard

Daniel Sampson

Jerald W Judy

Edwin N Swift

A location monitoring system tracks a location of a user within a healthcare facility. When the user is detected in a patient room an electronic controller activates a voice command database having a plurality of voice commands specific to the user. A microphone located in the patient room receives one of the plurality of voice commands. The electronic controller transmits the one of the plurality of voice commands to a remote device positioned outside of the patient room.

Voice recognition for patient care environment

A method, system and apparatus for federated identity brokering. In accordance with the present invention, a credential processing gateway can be disposed between one or more logical services and one or more service requesting clients in a computer communications network. Acting as a proxy and a trusted authority to the logical services, the credential processing gateway can map the credentials of the service requesting clients to the certification requirements of the logical services. In this way, the credential processing gateway can act as a federated identity broker in providing identity certification services for a multitude of different service requesting clients without requiring the logical services to include a pre-configuration for specifically processing the credentials of particular service requesting clients.

Federated identity brokering

Techniques are disclosed for federating identity management within a distributed portal server, leveraging Web services techniques and a number of industry standards. Identities are managed across autonomous security domains which may be comprised of independent trust models, authentication services, and user enrollment services. The disclosed techniques enable integrating third-party Web services-based portlets, which rely on various potentially-different security mechanisms, within a common portal page.

Federated identity management within a distributed portal server

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

David O Melgar