Novell, Inc.

Nick N Nikols

Daniel Wallace Rapp

Stephen R Carter

Brent W Thurgood

William Street

Daniel T Ferguson

Ryan Cox

Charles Matthew Morgan

Bryan J Cardoza

Jay D Wootton

Steven F Sonntag

Joe Skehan

Jason Elsberry

Dennis Foster

Richard S Bell

Patrick L Campbell

Betty Graupe

An application integration driver infrastructure for facilitating the use of a distributed directory running in a computer network is provided. The infrastructure can transform specific directory events into a vendor-neutral data identification system and then use vendor-neutral transformation technologies to transform the neutral data identification into a specific application's data format, and vice-versa. The infrastructure receives an event from the distributed directory into a markup language generation system, such as an extensible markup language ('XML') generator. The XML generator converts the event into XML data and provides the XML data to a transformation processing system, such as an extensible transformation language ('XSLT') processor. The XSLT processor transforms the XML data to a predetermined format. The format can be dictated by a stylesheet provided to the XSLT processor, the stylesheet being responsive to requirements of a computer application. The transformed data is then provided to the application for the application to use in a conventional manner. The application may use an application shim to convert the transformed data into a native application program interface (&#x201c;API&#x201d;) for the application.

Computer directory system having an application integration driver infrastructure

A method and system for dynamic assignment of entitlements is provided. A trigger is received from an identity store. A membership generator generates a list of members from user objects stored in the identity store. The generated list is compared against a previously generated list for changes. The changes are placed into an attribute modify specification, an entitlement grant specification, and an entitlement revoked specification. Using these specifications, a policy decision module routes the changes to policy enforcement modules. The policy enforcement modules implement the changes to entitlements.

Method and system for dynamic assignment of entitlements

An improved system, method and software program is provided for facilitating the use of components running in a computer network. The improvement provides virtual replication of a distributed directory in a computer system. The system includes at least two servers, each including a processor connected to a network for store, among other things, a partition of information. The partition may be distributed across the network. The memory of the second server can store, among other things, a virtual replica of the partition. The virtual replica includes a filtered view, or subset, of the information in the partition.

Virtual replication for a computer directory system

A method and apparatus for managing a heterogeneous network is disclosed. A first computer system has one or more identities. A management service on a second computer system manages objects on the second computer system. One or more objects on the second computer system represent the one or more identities and are adapted to be managed by the management service. An event monitor operating on the second computer system is operative to send messages relating to changes to the one or more objects. A replication agent operating on the first computer system is operative to receive messages from the event monitor and is operative to synchronize the one or more identities to the changes made to the one or more objects.

Method and apparatus for heterogeneous network management

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Nick N Nikols