Patent ID: 9319394
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a service provider from a service consumer, a request to access a service; checking configuration restrictions associated with the requested service to determine one of various ways to respond to the request, the configuration restrictions including authentication restrictions associated with the requested service; providing, by the service provider, an immediate response to grant access to the service consumer for the requested service if the configuration restrictions indicates no authentication restrictions and the requested service is authorized by an authorization service; generating a response to grant access to the service consumer for the requested service if the configuration restrictions indicates there is some level of authentication restrictions associated with the requested service, generating the response further comprising: receiving, by the service provider from an authorization service, authorization of the requested service for the service consumer; and providing, by the service provider to the service consumer, the response to grant access to the service consumer for the requested service in response to the validation and the authorization of the requested service.