Patent 7979896 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A web service includes a protected resource. A requester requests access to the protected resource by sending a request to the web service. The web service prevents access to the web service until the request has been authorized by an authorizer. After the request has been authorized by the authorizer, the web service allows the requester to access the protected resource.