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Sharing a sign-in among software applications having secured features

  • US 20040111644A1
  • Filed: 12/04/2002
  • Published: 06/10/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for sharing a sign-in operation among two or more software applications, wherein the software applications each have one or more secured features comprising:

  • receiving a request to sign-in to a first running software application;

    processing a credential to enter an access signed-in state within the first running software application to grant access to one or more secured features;

    in response to the access signed-in state, detecting whether one or more other software applications are running; and

    in response to the access signed-in state and to one or more other software applications running, transitioning one or more other running software applications to a ready signed-in state with access to the credential.

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