System and method of user credential management

• US 20070006299A1
• Filed: 06/30/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Psion PLC (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Psion PLC (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hodul, Rastislav, Elbury, Ian
• Granted Patent: US 8,219,814 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/19
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/41 where a single sign-on provides access to a plurality of computers

Abstract

A user credential management system and method for managing user credentials are provided. The user credential management system comprises an authentication module for authenticating a user login to a mobile device, and a message transforming module for associating a user credential to a message sent from the mobile device to a server. The method comprising the steps of authenticating a user login to a mobile device, locating a user credential associated with the user login, and associating the user credential to a message between the mobile device and a server.

Claims

1. A user credential management system for managing user credentials, the user credential management system comprising:

an authentication module for authenticating a user login to a mobile device; and

a message transforming module for associating a user credential to a message sent from the mobile device to a server.

2. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the message transforming module attaches the user credential to the message.

3. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user credential is encrypted and includes a username and a string of characters.

4. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a credential receiver module for receiving a user credential from the server.

5. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a mobile credential repository for storing the user credential on the mobile device.

6. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the mobile credential repository includes a mapping between the user credential and a username.

7. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a credential sender module for sending a user credential to the mobile device.

8. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a user credential repository for storing a plurality of user credentials on the server.

9. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the user credentials are grouped.

10. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 9, wherein further comprising:

a credential sender module for sending a group of user credentials to the mobile device;

a credential receiver module for receiving a group of user credentials from the server; and

a mobile credential repository for storing the group of user credentials on the mobile device.

11. The user credential management system as claimed in claim 9, wherein:

the group of user credentials includes user credentials for a user for a plurality of foreign servers; and

the message transforming module associating a user credential for a foreign server with a message between the foreign server and the mobile device.

12. A method of managing user credentials, the method comprising the steps of:

authenticating a user login to a mobile device;

locating a user credential associated with the user login; and

associating the user credential to a message between the mobile device and a server.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the step of storing user credentials in a repository on a server.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the user credentials are grouped into a plurality of tables.

15. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the step of sending a user credential to the mobile device.

16. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the step of sending a group of user credentials to the mobile device.

17. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the step of receiving a user credential from a server.

18. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the step of receiving a group of user credentials from a server.

19. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the step of storing the user credential in a local credential repository of the mobile device.

20. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the step of storing a plurality of user credentials for a single user.

21. The method as claimed in claim 20, further comprising the steps of:

associating the plurality of user credentials with a plurality of foreign servers; and

associating a user credential for a foreign server to a message between the mobile device and the foreign server.