Patent ID: 8832779

Claim:
A method of system independent mediation to provide secure access to a server application, comprising: retrieving, by an identity mapping module of a first enterprise service bus, an identity mapping policy for specifying direct and one-to-one correspondences between a first set of identities and a second set of identities, wherein the first set of identities correspond to a party and a client application, executed on a client computer, and the second set of identities correspond to the party and the server application, executed on a server computer; retrieving, by an authentication module of the first enterprise service bus, an authentication policy for authenticating a first identity of the first set of identities and a second identity of the second set identities, wherein the first identity and the second identity are mapped to each other by the identity mapping module; retrieving, by an authorization module of the first enterprise service bus, an authorization policy for authorizing the second identity for access to the server application; and providing a service, corresponding to a service request, from the server application to the party based upon a mapping of the first identity to the second identity by the mapping module, an authentication of the first and second identities by the authentication module and an authorization of the second identity by the authorization module.