US Patent Issued to NETAPP on Oct. 7 for "Methods and systems for centralized authorization/authentication for microservices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,871, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for centralized authorization/authentication for microservices" was invented by Balaji Swaroop Chappati (Bangalore, India) and Jayanta Poddar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems use a central validation module of a microservice-based system to interface an external identity provider (IDP) among a plurality of external IDPs to receive authentication and/or authorization information for an external request from a client. After the authentication and/or authorization information has been received for the external r...