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Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Martin Smolny, Boeblingen, DE;

Thomas Dürr, Magstadt, DE;

Michael Beck, Bad Teinach-Zavelstein, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Access token scope limiting is provided. An access token of a client containing a list of scopes is presented to an authorization application programming interface of the computer. Each scope in the list of scopes defines a permission to access a particular protected resource hosted by a resource server. A new access token is returned to the client containing a decreased number of scopes using a scope alias in response to the authorization application programming interface requesting a decrease in a number of scopes in the list of scopes. The scope alias representing a plurality of specific scopes from the list of scopes contained in the presented access token.


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