Patent ID: 8776082
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: detecting a client request from an application supported by an application services platform including at least one application server to access an external service, the client request including authentication information for authenticating a client executing the application; identifying the client from the authentication information; determining whether the client request complies with at least one rule specific to the identified client, including: determining that the client request complies with the one of the rules specific to the client when the amount of usage of the external service gauged to be required by the client request does not exceed the predetermined amount of usage of the external service allowed by one of the rules specific to the client; authenticating, by the application services platform, the client request using the authentication information; invoking the external service on behalf of the client in response to a determination that the authentication information is valid and the determination that the client request complies with the one of the rules specific to the client; and sending the client request to the external service.