Granting privileges and sharing resources in a telecommunications system

摘要

A method and an apparatus are disclosed that provide a privilege-granting technique for enabling a service-providing domain to grant a privilege to a requesting user in a service-requesting domain. A request handler in the service-providing domain, which comprises one or more service-associated resources, receives a user request to use a service and requests a token from a privilege-granting server, in accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention. Upon receiving the token that specifies a granted privilege from the privilege-granting server, the request handler extends the privilege to the requesting user. Alternatively, the request handler can request a plurality of tokens in advance from the privilege-granting server; after receiving the tokens, the request handler extends a privilege to each requesting user as the handler receives requests to use one or more services.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, in a service-providing domain, a request to use a service in said service-providing domain that is made by a first data-processing system in a service-requesting domain; transmitting a request for a token to a second data-processing system in said service-providing domain, wherein said second data-processing system is unaware of the identity of said first data-processing system; receiving said token wherein said token specifies a granted privilege; and extending said granted privilege to said first data-processing system, wherein a domain comprises a group of data-processing systems that share a common communications address, and wherein the common communications address of the service-providing domain is independent of the common communications address of the service-requesting domain.