Oracle International Corporation

Cisco Technology, Inc.

Oblix, Inc.

Rajesh Raman

Vrinda S Joshi

Praveen R Swadi

Michael J Shandony

Kumar Vora

Prakash Ramamurthy

Shahram Moatazedi

Adam C Stone

Sandeep Kumar

Vinod Dashora

A network infrastructure element such as a router or switch performs brokering network user identity and credential information. An application or administrative user can declare a policy for user identity information extraction, authentication and authorization. Based on the policy, the network element extracts user identity information or credentials from a transport-layer message header, application-layer message header, and message body. Based on the policy, the network element performs one or more authentication or authorization operations with the user identity information or credentials. As a result, a network element can broker identity information among incompatible applications and perform identity operations for the applications.

Identity brokering in a network element

A method and apparatus for implementing a corporate directory and service center is described. The method includes and the apparatus performs querying for common characteristics, displaying information in a varied manner of displays and switching between the manners of displaying, maintaining data integrity and changing data, and defining types of data with forms of display or treatments for handling the data. The method may be embodied in various media as instructions which a machine may execute to perform the method.

Method and apparatus for implementing a corporate directory and service center

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Rajesh Raman