Patent ID: 8032935
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of synchronizing role membership within security roles of disparate computer applications, the method comprising: interfacing, by a management console, with disparate computer applications having different established security infrastructures that support security roles for users, the management console configured to interface with the disparate computer applications via a synchronization web service; collecting, by the management console, the security roles used in each of the disparate computer applications; storing, at the management console, synchronization rules for associating collected security roles among the disparate computer applications; presenting, by the management console, one or more user interfaces for selecting a particular computer application from the disparate computer applications, selecting a particular security role, selecting one or more users to be granted the particular security role, and selecting a synchronization rule that is related to the particular computer application and to the particular security role; and executing, by the management console via the synchronization web service, a selected synchronization rule that specifies the particular computer application as a source application, specifies a destination application from the disparate computer applications, and associates the particular security role with a collected security role of the destination application; wherein execution of the selected synchronization rule synchronizes role membership within the particular security role of the particular application specified as the source application and role membership within the collected security role of the destination application.