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Methods, Apparatuses and Systems Facilitating Seamless, Virtual Integration of Online Membership Models and Services

  • US 20080098122A1
  • Filed: 12/21/2007
  • Published: 04/24/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus facilitating integration of separate online services, comprising a session state module operative to generate session identifiers in response to requests for a session identifier;

  • maintain session state information in association with the session identifiers, wherein the session state information comprises a user identifier;

    a server module operative to receive requests for session identifiers from a third-party site, wherein the third-party requests include user identifiers;

    authenticate the requests for session identifiers;

    access the session state module to obtain session identifiers for authenticated requests;

    transmit the session identifiers to the third-party site in response to the requests for session identifiers;

    receive requests from users, wherein the requests include session identifiers transmitted to the third-party sites; and

    control access to resources available to the users by validating the session identifiers in the requests from users against the session state information maintained by the session state module.

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