Patent ID: 8813205

Claim:
A system for consolidating cloud service data and behaviors comprising: one or more non-transitory storage mediums storing program instructions; one or more processors for executing the program instructions; a plurality of cloud services, comprising at least a portion of the program instructions, operating in a cloud computing environment, wherein the plurality of cloud services provide data and behaviors in response to service requests; a plurality of user/service membership data that associates a plurality of requesting entities with cloud services to which the plurality of requesting entities subscribe; a federated trust library containing inter-service trust information for the cloud services contained in the user/service membership data, wherein the inter-service trust comprises a directionality property for defining a first level of trust from a first cloud service to a second cloud service and a second level of trust from the second cloud service to the first cloud service, wherein the first level of trust is different from the second level of trust; and a trusted cloud service consolidator, comprising at least a portion of the program instructions, configured to selectively consolidate the data and behaviors from cloud services into a unified data structure in response to a service request, wherein the cloud services are selected based upon a trust factor synthesized from the federated trust library, wherein the trust factor is a quantification of a level of confidence between a cloud service specified in the service request and other cloud services that a requesting entity consumes, as defined in the user/service membership data.