Method and Apparatus for Integrating Distributed Shared Services System
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for integrating distributed shared services system which integrates web based applications with each other and with other centralized application to provide a single sign-on approach for authentication and authorization services for distributed web sites requiring no access time back to the authentication/authorization server is provided.
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55 Claims
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1-37. -37. (canceled)
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38. A system comprising:
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a first application residing in a central server coupled to a client terminal, the client terminal including a cookie file; a second application residing in the same domain as the central server; a configuration file residing in the central server, wherein the configuration file contains a list of cookie fields that may be read or written to by the first application or the second application; and an application interface library residing in the central server, wherein the application interface library is configured to provide the first application and the second application with access to one or more cookie fields of the cookie file. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A system comprising:
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a client terminal including a cookie file; a central server coupled to the client terminal, the central server configured to detect a user event at the client terminal, wherein the central server is further configured to generate a message corresponding to the detected user event; a first application residing in the central server; a second application residing in the same domain as the central server; a configuration file residing in the central server, wherein the configuration file contains a list of cookie fields that may be read or written to by the first application or the second application; and an application interface library residing in the central server, wherein the application interface library is configured to provide the first application and the second application with access to one or more cookie fields of the cookie file. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A method of providing a single sign-on distributed application service integration, comprising:
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using a client terminal to access a first application on a central server, wherein the central server is coupled to the client terminal and is configured to detect a user event; receiving, using the client terminal, a cookie file corresponding to the client terminal, wherein a configuration file resides in a central server and contains a list of cookie fields of the cookie, further wherein the first application has read and write access to the cookie file as determined by the list of cookie fields; and using the client terminal to access to a second application, wherein the second application resides in the same domain as the central server, wherein the second application has read and write access to the cookie file as determined by the list of cookie fields. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55)
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