US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Nov. 18 for "Governing access to third-party application programming interfaces" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,984, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Governing access to third-party application programming interfaces" was invented by Tuck Chang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Zhengming Zhang (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for governing access to third-party application programming interfaces (API's) are disclosed. A proxy service exposes an API configured to receive requests, from user-facing services, to perform functions of backend services. The proxy service stores a usage policy that defines a criterion that is (a) different from any authorization criterion and (...