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Federated identity management within a distributed portal server

  • US 20050114701A1
  • Filed: 11/21/2003
  • Published: 05/26/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing cross-domain authentication in a computing environment, comprising steps of:

  • providing security credentials of an entity to an initial point of contact in the computing environment;

    passing the provided credentials from the initial point of contact to a trust proxy;

    authenticating the passed credentials with an authentication service in a local security domain of the trust proxy; and

    using the authentication performed by the local authentication service to seamlessly authenticate the entity to one or more selected remote security domains.

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