WEB-BASED AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
First Claim
1. A web-based authentication manager for a client device operated by a user and for a web-based application, the authentication manager, the client device, and the web-based application communicatively linked to each other via a network, the web-based authentication manager comprising:
- a client database including web-based application authentication data to be used at least in part to log the client device operated by the user into the web-based application;
a communication module configured to communicate with the client device via the network to receive a web-based application choice from the client device and send web-based application authentication data to the client device, the communication module configured to communicate with the web-based application via the network; and
a control module configured to send the web-based application authentication data through the communication module to the client device via the network whereby the client device is enabled to send the web-based application authentication data to the web-based application.
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Abstract
A web-based authentication system and method provides centralized management of authentication data for web-based applications. Under typical operation of the system, a user need only remember to authenticate data to the system rather than have to remember various sets of authentication data for numerous web-based applications that the user may authenticate through the system. A user may be authenticated before the user uses the system. Initially, the user has to enter authentication data for various web-based applications that the user wants the system to manage. Upon the user'"'"'s selection, the system then authenticates to the desired web-based application using the first set of authentication data stored in the system. Since the first set of authentication data is stored on the system, the user does not have to provide the first set of authentication data to authenticate to the web-based application.
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20 Claims
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1. A web-based authentication manager for a client device operated by a user and for a web-based application, the authentication manager, the client device, and the web-based application communicatively linked to each other via a network, the web-based authentication manager comprising:
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a client database including web-based application authentication data to be used at least in part to log the client device operated by the user into the web-based application;
a communication module configured to communicate with the client device via the network to receive a web-based application choice from the client device and send web-based application authentication data to the client device, the communication module configured to communicate with the web-based application via the network; and
a control module configured to send the web-based application authentication data through the communication module to the client device via the network whereby the client device is enabled to send the web-based application authentication data to the web-based application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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