Patent ID: 9641530
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of multitenant directory management within a networked computing system comprising a central server and a plurality of edge servers, the method comprising: accessing a multitenant directory at the central server, wherein the multitenant directory comprises a mapping between user identities and information technology (IT) resources for a plurality of organizations, and wherein each organization of the plurality of organizations comprises a plurality of users, wherein the IT resources for at least one organization of the plurality of organizations includes file systems; activating a first edge server of the plurality of edge servers; transmitting a first portion of the multitenant directory from the central server to the first edge server, wherein the first portion of the multitenant directory comprises references to IT resources for a first organization of the plurality of organizations; transmitting a second portion of the multitenant directory from the central server to the first edge server, wherein the second portion of the multitenant directory comprises references to IT resources for a second organization of the plurality of organizations; activating a second edge server of the plurality of edge servers based at least in part on a system load from the plurality of organizations; transmitting the first and second portions of the multitenant directory to the second edge server; and authenticating a first user of the first organization of the plurality of organizations for access to the first portion of the multitenant directory at the first and second edge servers utilizing a first protocol, wherein the authenticating is based at least in part on the first user of the first organization being assigned a permission, and wherein the authenticating comprises: providing an indication to one or more of the IT resources that the first user of the first organization is assigned the permission.