ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,536, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Inter-domain access using identity provider" was invented by Shoham Levy (Ra'anana, Israel), Amos Zamir (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Stav Sapir (Beer Sheba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for inter-domain access using an identity provider. One method comprises receiving, by a first domain, a request from a device of a second domain, different than the first domain, that requires the first domain to perform an operation on the second domain; providing, by the first domain, in response to the received request, (i) an access identif...