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Authentication on thin clients using independent devices

  • US 10,523,665 B2
  • Filed: 02/03/2017
  • Issued: 12/31/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for performing authentication on a thin client using a mobile device, the method comprising:

  • maintaining, by an authentication service that executes on a server, mappings, each of the mappings linking mobile device information for a particular mobile device to a domain identity of a particular user and linking the domain identity of the particular user to a particular thin client desktop;

    executing, on a first mobile device, a mobile application;

    authenticating, by the mobile application, a first user of the first mobile device, wherein the mobile application authenticates the first user by employing an authentication architecture of the first mobile device;

    after authenticating the first user by employing the authentication architecture of the first mobile device, sending, by the mobile application, an authentication notification to the authentication service, the authentication notification indicating that the first user has been authenticated on the first mobile device, the authentication notification including mobile device information that identifies the first mobile device;

    in response to receiving the authentication notification, comparing, by the authentication service, the mobile device information that was included in the authentication notification to the mappings;

    based on the comparison, determining, by the authentication service, that a first mapping of the mappings links the mobile device information that was included in the authentication notification to a domain identity of the first user;

    determining, by the authentication service, that the first mapping links the domain identity of the first user to a first thin client desktop;

    in response to receiving the authentication notification that indicates that the first user has been authenticated on the first mobile device and based on the first mapping linking the mobile device information that was included in the authentication notification to the domain identity of the first user, sending, by the authentication service, a logon command to an agent on a thin client including providing login information for the domain identity of the first user; and

    in response to receiving the logon command, logging, by the agent on the thin client, the first user into the first thin client desktop that is linked to the domain identity of the first user such that the first user is logged into the first thin client desktop on the thin client based on the authentication of the first user that employed the authentication architecture of the first mobile device rather than requiring the first user to input credentials to the thin client.

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