Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiple identity management in an electronic commerce site
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Application No.: US13087492Application Date: 2011-04-15
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Publication No.: US08359396B2Publication Date: 2013-01-22
- Inventor: Victor S. Chan , Darshanand Khusial , Lev Mirlas
- Applicant: Victor S. Chan , Darshanand Khusial , Lev Mirlas
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Francis Lammes; Stephen J. Walder, Jr.; Jeffrey S. LaBaw
- Priority: CA2432483 20030617
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16

Abstract:
In electronic commerce (e-commerce) sites that are executed on a single e-commerce application, a user's session is only associated with a single user identity for e-commerce site domain. Acting under a single identity across the site may not be desired. There may be requirements to associate an individual user with one or more separate identities within parts of the site. Aspects of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for managing multiple user identities for a user of an electronic commerce (e-commerce) site. The method comprises defining the e-commerce site as one or more security domains; and in response to a user's request to invoke an operation of the e-commerce site: determining a one of the one or more security domains to which the operation relates; performing one of a) creating a session and b) reusing a session for the user automatically in accordance with the determined security domain, said session associated with a user identity and a role indicating privileges for invoking operations of the e-commerce site in at least the determined security domain; and persisting said session for reuse. The user's request may be received in association with one or more sessions persisted for the user and a one of the sessions selected in accordance with the determined security domain. In response, either a session may be created or reused. Persisting may comprise providing one or more cookies defining the session to the user for associating with a subsequent request. In accordance with a feature of this aspect, the e-commerce site may define each of the one or more security domains as a hierarchy of organizations and assets owned by the organizations and the determining a one of the one or more security domains to which the operation relates may comprise evaluating the user's request in accordance with the hierarchy.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110191831A1 Multiple Identity Management in an Electronic Commerce Site Public/Granted day:2011-08-04
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