Patent ID: 7865466

Claim:
A computer implemented method for synchronizing account names from a plurality of source security systems, the computer implemented method comprising: responsive to coupling a conversion system between the plurality of source security systems and a target security system, loading by the conversion system identity data for a user that owns security accounts from a human resource system and account data for the user authorized to access data in the plurality of source security systems from the plurality of source security systems; discovering by the conversion system account names associated with the user stored across the plurality of source security systems within the account data; retrieving by the conversion system a name resolution rule set; generating by the conversion system a unique account name identification for the discovered account names associated with the user stored across the plurality of source security systems using the name resolution rule set; converting by the conversion system the discovered account names associated with the user stored across the plurality of source security systems to the unique account name identification, wherein conflicts between the discovered account names stored across the plurality of source security systems are resolved by producing a synchronized plurality of account names each including the unique account name identification associated with the user; and storing by the conversion system the synchronized plurality of account names each including the unique account name identification associated with the user in the target security system, wherein during conversion the discovered account names associated with the user are deleted from the plurality of source security systems that stored the discovered account names in response to the conversion system storing the synchronized plurality of account names in the target security system.