DISTRIBUTED SECURE ANONYMOUS CONFERENCING
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Abstract
A communications manager of an enterprise receives an add-conference request to host a conference by the enterprise from an organizer client, wherein the conference to enable an anonymous user that does not have enterprise credentials to join the conference. The communications manager sends an add-conference response to the organizer client indicating that the conference is organized.
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47 Claims
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29. A computer implemented method for authenticating an anonymous user to join a conference, the method comprising:
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receiving a join conference request from an anonymous user client, wherein the anonymous user client does not have enterprise credentials; establishing a security association with the anonymous user client, wherein the security association established with the anonymous user client includes an identifier corresponding to the authenticating server and an opaque value corresponding to the authenticating server; stamping the security association with a conference identifier; and allowing the anonymous user client to join the conference when the stamped conference identifier matches the conference identifier associated with the conference requested by the anonymous user client in the join conference request. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A system for authenticating an anonymous user to join a conference, the system comprising the following computer executable components:
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at least one processing unit; a memory, communicatively coupled to the processing unit, containing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing unit, perform the following method; receiving a join conference request from an anonymous user client, wherein the anonymous user client does not have enterprise credentials; establishing, at an authenticating server, a security association with the anonymous user client, wherein the security association established with the anonymous user client includes an identifier corresponding to the authenticating server, an opaque value corresponding to the authenticating server; stamping the security association with a conference identifier; and allowing the anonymous user client to join the conference when the stamped conference identifier matches the conference identifier associated with the conference requested by the anonymous user client in the join conference request. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A computer storage medium executable on a computing system and encoding a computer program of instructions for executing a computer implemented method for authenticating an anonymous user to join a conference, the method comprising:
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receiving a join conference request from an anonymous user client, wherein the anonymous user client does not have enterprise credentials; establishing, at an authenticating server, a security association with the anonymous user client, wherein the security association established with the anonymous user client includes an identifier corresponding to the authenticating server, an opaque value corresponding to the authenticating server; stamping the security association with a conference identifier; and allowing the anonymous user client to join the conference when the stamped conference identifier matches the conference identifier associated with the conference requested by the anonymous user client in the join conference request. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47)
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