Patent ID: 8826408

Claim:
A method for consolidating cloud service data and behaviors comprising: compiling of user/service membership data that associates a plurality of requesting entities with cloud services to which the plurality of requesting entities subscribe by a trusted cloud service consolidator; creating a federated trust library of 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; in response to a service request from a requesting entity, identifying trusted secondary cloud services for the requesting entity, wherein the trusted secondary cloud services correspond to those cloud services that are associated with the requesting entity in the user/service membership data, wherein the trusted secondary cloud services are not a target of the service request, and, wherein said identification is based upon trust factors synthesized from data contained in the federated trust library; consolidating data satisfying the service request and associated behaviors from each trusted secondary cloud service into a unified data structure, wherein a behavior is an executable action supported by a trusted secondary cloud service, wherein said behavior is executable upon the data satisfying the service request obtained from the trusted secondary cloud service; and conveying the unified data structure to the requesting entity in a service response.