International Business Machines Corporation

Patrick Charles Mancuso

Scott Howard Prager

William S Cadden

Jane B Marcus

Alan D Eldridge

Anthony J Arcuri

Robert John Paganetti

Michael J Kerrigan

Kurt A Riegel

Frederick P Muller

David W Stafford

Robert C Seacord

David Scott Kern, Jr

A secure database includes a catalog of information about one or more identity providers (IdPs) that are trusted by a service provider (SP) to authenticate users on the SP's behalf. The catalog securely stores one or more IdP configurations. An entry in the database stores information associated with the trusted IdP including artifacts to identify the IdP, artifacts used by the IdP for cryptographic operations, and a specification of one or more website(s) serviced by the trusted identity provider. Upon receipt by the SP of identity information representing a user that has authenticated to an IdP, information in the catalog of information is used to determine whether the IdP is trusted to authenticate the user on the service provider's behalf. The determination verifies that the SP uses the IdP and that a binding between an IdP identifier and at least one IdP cryptographic artifact is valid.

Secure configuration catalog of trusted identity providers

The present invention provides methods and systems by for identifying, from within a host operating environment, related data from two or more data sources, one or more of which data sources being an external data source to a host operating environment, and for assembling a result data group derived from the related data. The result data group may be assembled as a virtual native document within the host operating environment, such that data from the data group may be accessed and manipulated as a first class participant through the host operating environment by client computers, without requiring nonvolatile storage of external data as native data to the host operating environment.

Method for correlating data from external databases

An enterprise data integration product which facilitates access to one or more external or remote databases so as to provide integration from a central application. The product enables a user to pre-populate a credential database which stores the user's security credentials for each of the remote databases to which access is desired. When the user requests access to a remote database, the product automatically retrieves the user's security credentials for that database and establishes a connection thereto based on the retrieval credentials. In this manner, the product provides seamless access to the remote database while maintaining the user's pre-ordained access restriction thereto.

Centralized mapping of security credentials for database access operations

The present invention relates to a method for providing improved editing capability in a structure editor, and more particularly for syntax-directed editors. A set of methods provide an approach to selecting arbitrary nodes from within a tree, and using those arbitrarily selected groups of nodes in otherwise conventional editing operations such as move, copy, delete, collect, and the like. In syntax-directed editors, the present invention provides a way of maintaining syntax while these novel and highly flexible editing operations are performed.

Method in a structure editor

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