Patent ID: 11968303
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 4:
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the application is executed in a container on the server, the computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving the data representing the request for the identity assertion token corresponding to the application from it container manager at the server; and
in response to the request for the identity assertion token,
determining an identity of the container manager;
accessing a database for another authorization policy record corresponding to the identity of the container manager;
determining that the application managed by the container manager is authorized for the identity assertion token based on the other authorization policy record; and
in response to determining that the application is authorized for the identity assertion token, transmitting the identity as lion token to the container manager at the server.