SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROGRAM CREDENTIALS
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Abstract
A system for providing a client'"'"'s credentials to a computer program comprises a database remote from the client and a single signon server module. The single signon server module can receive a request for the client'"'"'s credentials from the computer program, determine whether the client'"'"'s credentials are stored in the database, and send the client'"'"'s credentials from the database to the computer program in response to a determination that the client'"'"'s credentials are stored in the database. The single signon server module can store the client'"'"'s credentials in the database in response to a determination that the client'"'"'s credentials are not stored in the database. The single signon server module can encrypt the client'"'"'s credentials prior to storing the client'"'"'s credentials in the database and can decrypt the client'"'"'s credentials prior to sending the client'"'"'s credentials to the computer program.
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Citations
43 Claims
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1-23. -23. (canceled)
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24. A computer-implemented method in a sign-on remote computer for providing user credentials to a computer program executing at a second remote computer, the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer being located at different locations remote from a client computer under control of a user, there being a connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, a connection between the sign-on remote computer and the client computer, and a connection between the client computer and the second remote computer, the method comprising the steps of:
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storing the user credentials in a single sign-on database communicatively connected to the sign-on remote computer; receiving at the sign-on remote computer, via the connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, a request from the computer program executing at the second remote computer for the user credentials containing information identifying the user, the computer program having received a request for access from the client computer, via the connection between the client computer and the second remote computer, wherein the request for access did not include the user credentials; obtaining the user credentials from the single sign-on database; and sending the user credentials, via the connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, from the sign-on remote computer to the computer program executing at the second remote computer in response to the computer program'"'"'s request, wherein the sign-on remote computer sends the user credentials to the computer program executing at the second remote computer. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A computer-readable medium for providing user credentials from a sign-on remote computer to a computer program executing on a second remote computer, the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer being located at different locations remote from a client computer under control of a user, there being a connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, a connection between the sign-on remote computer and the client computer, and a connection between the client computer and the second remote computer, the computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing steps comprising:
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storing the user credentials in a single sign-on database communicatively connected to the sign-on remote computer; receiving at the sign-on remote computer, via the connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, a request from the computer program executing at the second remote computer for the user credentials containing information identifying the user, the computer program having received a request for access from the client computer, via the connection between the client computer and the second remote computer, wherein the request for access did not include the user credentials; obtaining the user credentials from the single sign-on database; and sending the user credentials, via the connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, from the sign-on remote computer to the computer program executing at the second remote computer in response to the computer program'"'"'s request, wherein the sign-on remote computer sends the user credentials to the computer program executing at the second remote computer. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A system for providing user credentials from a sign-on remote computer to a computer program executing on a second remote computer, comprising:
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a single sign-on database remote from a client computer, the single sign-on database storing user credentials; and a single sign-on server module capable of; receiving at the sign-on remote computer, via a connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, a request from the computer program executing at the second remote computer for the user credentials containing information identifying the user, the computer program having received a request for access from the client computer, via a connection between the client computer and the second remote computer, wherein the request for access did not include the user credentials; obtaining the user credentials from the single sign-on database; and sending the user credentials, via the connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, from the sign-on remote computer to the computer program executing at the second remote computer in response to the computer program'"'"'s request, wherein the sign-on remote computer sends the user credentials to the computer program executing at the second remote computer. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43)
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