Patent ID: 8676984

Claim:
A system for enabling communication between multiple cloud-based services operating on a common cloud infrastructure, comprising: a cloud infrastructure providing a plurality of cloud-based services, the plurality of cloud-based services including a first service of a first tenant and a second service of a second tenant; a live directory located within the cloud infrastructure for aggregating and distributing sharing and availability information pertaining to one or more of the plurality of cloud-based services; a back-end network within the cloud infrastructure enabling communication between the plurality of cloud-based services and the live directory; and a wide area network enabling communication between the plurality of cloud-based services and one or more remote clients, wherein the sharing and availability information pertaining to one or more of the plurality of cloud-based services aggregated and distributed by the live directory is used to establish a back-end connection between the first service of the first tenant and the second service of a second tenant.