Converged Entitlement Repository for Resource Access Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack a method to converge entitlement resources from multiple repositories into a single repository, preventing companies from realizing cost savings and promoting synergy among shared resources.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that converge entitlement resources from multiple repositories into a single repository, where each resource is marked with entitlement identifiers, and authentication tokens are used to determine access rights, allowing authorized access and offering opportunities for unauthenticated users to obtain access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If entitlement resources are kept in multiple separate repositories at different web sites, then each site can maintain its own entitlement management independently, but companies cannot realize cost savings and synergy associated with consolidated resource management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple entitlement resource repositories from different web sites into a single consolidated entitlement repository. This consolidation allows centralized management of entitled content, enabling companies to realize cost savings and synergy by eliminating redundant infrastructure and streamlining entitlement management processes across multiple sites.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal entitlement repository that can store and manage entitled content from multiple different web sites and sources. This single repository serves multiple functions: storing technical documents, software updates, and other entitled content from various sources, while providing unified access control and entitlement verification across the entire organization.
2Ease of manufacture
If a single entitlement repository is created to consolidate entitled content from multiple web sites, then cost savings and synergy are achieved, but determining how to entitle the right customers becomes a complex problem
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary entitlement verification process that acts as a mediator between the consolidated entitlement repository and customer access requests. When a customer attempts to access entitled content, the system automatically verifies the customer's entitlement status by checking against the unified repository, thereby simplifying the complex task of determining customer entitlement across multiple sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system automatically verifies customer entitlement status against the consolidated repository and provides real-time feedback on access authorization. This automated feedback loop eliminates the need for manual entitlement determination, reducing complexity while maintaining accurate customer entitlement verification across all entitled content.
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AI summary
A method, apparatus and program-product are provided for managing user access to a converged set of entitlement resources residing within an entitlement resource repository. Each of the entitlement resources is marked with an entitlement identifier. When a requester attempts to access an entitlement resource, an authentication token corresponding to the requester is sent to one or more entitlement authorities associated with the entitlement resource. The entitlement authority creates a set of entitlement identifiers associated with the requestor. This set of entitlement identifiers associated with the requestor is then compared with the entitlement identifiers associated with the entitlement resource to determine if the requestor has authority to access the entitlement resource.