Customized Log-In Experience

• US 20150113626A1
• Filed: 10/21/2013
• Published: 04/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Bocanegra Alvarez, Tobias M., Nuescheler, David B.
• Granted Patent: US 9,736,143 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/8
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Techniques for a customized log-in experience are described in which, script associated with a log-in page is configured to recognize a domain identifier associated with a user log-in attempt via the page. The domain identifier may correspond to a particular customer or company that makes use of web applications and/or other resources from a service provider. The domain identifier may be employed to download or otherwise access data sufficient to implement one or more customizations of the log-in page that correspond to the domain identifier, such as a company logo, a custom background, custom styles, and so forth. The one or more customizations that correlate to the domain identifier are applied to customize the log-in page in a pre-login environment prior to completion of the user log-in attempt. In this way, a tailored user experience is provided even before user authentication to access resources from the service provider.

Claims

1. A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:

detecting input of credentials for authentication to a service via a log-in page; and

prior to submission of the credentials received via the log-in page to initiate the authentication to the service;

parsing the credentials to extract a domain identifier; and

customizing the log-in page based on the extracted domain identifier to implement one or more domain-specific customizations of the log-in page.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the credentials comprises a username in the form of an email address that contains the domain identifier as a substring.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein parsing the credentials comprises parsing the email address to extract the substring.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the customizing occurs responsive to input of the username and independent of input of a corresponding password to gain access to the service.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising querying a customization database using the domain identifier to access the one or more customizations mapped to the domain identifier.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein querying the customization database comprises constructing a path name to a location of the customization database using the extracted domain identifier.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the customization database is accessible via a server associated with a service provider that provides the service.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the customization database is accessible as a cache at the computing device that stores customizations corresponding to one or more previously accessed domains in association with corresponding domain identifiers.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein customizing the log-in page based on the extracted domain identifier comprises:

obtaining a style document that defines the one or more customizations and is mapped to the extracted domain identifier; and

applying the one or more customizations to the log-in page as defined by the style document.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more customizations of the log-in page include at least one of a logo, an image, a font selection, a layout of page elements, functionality, or a style for page elements defined to customize the log-in page on a domain-specific basis.

11. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the service comprises a web application accessible over a network from a service provider for execution via a browser at the computing device.

12. The method as described in claim 1, wherein the one or more customizations are retrieved via a server-side repository that enables customization of the log-in page without storing state data indicative of the one or more customizations at the computing device.

13. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to implement a customized log-in module to perform operations including:

recognizing a domain identifier associated with a user log-in attempt via a log-in page of a service provider before credentials are submitted for authentication to access resources available from the service provider;

obtaining a style document corresponding to the domain identifier indicative of one or more customizations to apply to the log-in page; and

applying the one or more customizations indicated by the style document to the log-in page prior to completion of the user log-in attempt.

14. The one or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 13, wherein the domain identifier is recognized by parsing input for a username field exposed by the log-in page before credentials associated with the username field are submitted for authentication.

15. The one or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 13, wherein:

the style document comprises a cascading style sheet (CSS) configured to define the one or more customizations; and

applying the one or more customizations comprises;

replacing a default cascading style sheet for the log-in page with the cascading style sheet (CSS) configured to define the one or more customizations that is obtained; and

re-rendering the log-in page.

16. The one or more computer-readable storage media as described in claim 13, wherein applying the one or more customizations comprises at least changing a background image for the log-in page to a customized image mapped to the domain identifier.

17. A computing device comprising:

a processing system;

one or more memories storing instructions executable via the processing system to perform operations to implement a customized log-in experience in connection with a web application available from a service provider, the operations comprising;

extracting a domain identifier associated with a user log-in attempt via a log-in page of the service provider before authentication of the user log-in attempt;

constructing a path name to retrieve a style document from a designated storage location based on the domain identifier, the style document configured to indicate one or more customizations for the log-in page for a domain associated with the domain identifier;

obtaining the style document from the designated storage location using the path name; and

applying the one or more customizations indicated by the style document to the log-in page prior to completion of the user log-in attempt.

18. The computing device as described in claim 17, wherein the domain identifier comprises a name of a particular customer of the service provider.

19. The computing device as described in claim 17, wherein the domain identifier is extracted from an address for the log-in page that contains the domain identifier.

20. The computing device as described in claim 17, wherein the designated storage location comprises a customization database available at a server associated with the service provider and configured to map domain identifiers corresponding to a plurality of customers of the service provider to style documents that define corresponding customizations, the customization database at the server enabling customizations to be applied in a pre-login environment without maintaining state data regarding the customizations individually at client computing devices.