Patent ID: 8302168
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A data processing system comprising: a service provider addressable through a Uniform Resource Locator and to offer a plurality of services associated with corresponding second Uniform Resource Locators stored in a federated identity record at a Domain Name Service; and an identity provider to handle a federated action by determining that a user request is to be conveyed to the service provider, retrieving one of the second Uniform Resource Locators from the federated identity record at the Domain Name Service corresponding to a federated service in the user request, and sending a request or assertion as a push message over a back-channel communication pathway to the service provider at the one of the second Uniform Resource Locators, the service provider to handle the federated action by sending a response to the message over the back-channel communication pathway to the identity provider including a third Uniform Resource Locator to which the user is to be directed, and the identity provider to redirect the user to the third Uniform Resource Locator specified in the response.