Patent ID: 11968203
Assignee: SALESFORCE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computer implemented method for providing authorization to perform an administration task, comprising: configuring on a cloud platform: a control datacenter including an administration engine; and one or more service datacenters, wherein a service datacenter runs instances of at least one service and an auxiliary service associated with application programming interfaces (APIs) for at least one service; receiving by the administration engine, a request to perform an administration operation associated with one or more services by executing a set of administration APIs; responsive to the administration engine receiving an approval for allowing the administration operation, receiving an authorization token for performing the administration operation, wherein the authorization token encodes at least in part a data structure representing the set of administration APIs using a hash function; providing the authorization token to one or more auxiliary services for particular instances of the one or more services; determining by the one or more auxiliary services whether respective administration APIs associated with the one or more auxiliary services are included in the data structure encoded by the authorization token; and responsive to the determination, performing the administration operation by executing the set of administration APIs.