Patent ID: 8104069

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of deriving a trust realm, the method comprising: modeling, on a computing device having one or more processors and coupled to a server over a network, a process that involves one or more secure interactions among administrative domains to provide a process model, each of the administrative domains being associated with a generic entity and coupled to the server, the process model specifying generic role information associated with each of the administrative domains and interactions among the administrative domains, the generic role information defining an observable behavior; receiving, from a repository included within the server over the network, candidate role information associated with candidate administrative domains of candidate entities; dynamically resolving, using the one or more processors, appropriate administrative domains from the candidate administrative domains based on the process model and the candidate role information; automatically deriving, using the one or more processors, one or more trust realms among the appropriate administrative domains based on the generic role information and the interactions specified by the process model; and effecting, over the network, the one or more secure interactions among the appropriate administrative domains through the one or more trust realms.