AUTHENTICATION SPECIFIC DATA

• US 20160380992A1
• Filed: 02/11/2015
• Published: 12/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Boodman, Aaron
• Application Number:
  US15/117,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20160380992A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2228 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/335 for accessing specific resources, e.g. using Kerberos tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0807 using tickets, e.g. Kerberos cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using tickets or tokens H04L9/3213

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for managing authentications and processing authenitcation specific data. In one aspect, a method includes instantiating an instance of a browsing application ; associating an authentication token with a browser session of the instance of the browsing application; requesting resources from publisher servers, each of the resources being a resource that provides authentication specific information specific to an authentication token, and each resource provides different authentication specific information for each different corresponding authentication token; for each publisher server, authenticating the authentication token for the browser session and receiving the authentication specific information in response; and associating the authentication specific information with only the authentication token; providing the authentication token and its associated authentication specific information to an indexer that indexes the authentication specific information, the resources, and the authentication token in an authentication specific corpus.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

at a data processing apparatus, instantiating an instance of a browsing application;

associating an authentication token with a browser session of the instance of the browsing application;

requesting resources from publisher servers, each of the resources being a resource that provides authentication specific information specific to an authentication token, and each resource provides different authentication specific information for each different corresponding authentication token;

for each publisher server, authenticating the authentication token for the browser session and receiving the authentication specific information in response; and

associating the authentication specific information with only the authentication token;

providing the authentication token and its associated authentication specific information to an indexer that indexes the authentication specific information, the resources, and the authentication token in an authentication specific corpus.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

instantiating an instance of a browsing application comprises generating, for each of a plurality of user devices, a virtual machine instance of a browsing application;

associating an authentication token with a browser session of the instance of the browsing application comprises, for each virtual machine instance, instantiating a browser session for a corresponding authentication token, each authentication token uniquely corresponding to a user device;

requesting resources from publishing servers comprises, for each virtual machine instance, requesting resources from the publisher servers;

associating the authentication specific information with only the authentication token comprises, for each virtual machine instance, associating the authentication specific information with only the authentication token for the virtual machine instance; and

providing the authentication token and its associated authentication specific information to an indexer comprises providing each authentication token and its associated authentication specific information to an indexer that indexes the authentication specific information, the resources, and the authentication token in an authentication specific corpus.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

instantiating, at the data processing apparatus, a session with a browser application on a user device;

determining an authentication token for the session;

receiving a search query from the user device and in response providing the search query and the authentication token to a search service;

receiving, from the search service, a set of search results, the set of search results including;

first search results identifying first resources indexed in a general resource corpus, the first resources identified by the search service searching the general resource corpus; and

second search results identifying second resources indexed in the authentication specific corpus, the second resources identified by the search service searching the authentication specific corpus by a search constrained to only the authentication specific information associated with the authentication token; and

providing the set of search results to the user device in response to the query.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising, for two or more of the virtual machine instances:

instantiating, within the virtual machine, a native application that generates application pages for display on a user device within the native application, the native application operating independent of a browser application that can operate on the user device;

authenticating the authentication token for the native application;

accessing, within the virtual machine, application pages of the native application, and for each of the application pages receiving authentication specific information for the application page, wherein the application pages provide different authentication specific information for each authentication token;

providing the authentication token, application page identifiers and their associated authentication specific information from the application pages, to an indexer that indexes the application page identifiers, their associated authentication specific information, and the authentication token in the authentication specific corpus

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the set of search results further includes third search results identifying application specific pages indexed in the authentication specific corpus, the application specific pages identified by the search service searching the authentication specific corpus by a search constrained to only the authentication specific information associated with the authentication token.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein, for each publisher server, authenticating the authentication token for the browser session and receiving the authentication specific information in response comprises:

providing the authentication token to the virtual machine instance of the browser application;

providing, from the virtual machine instance of the browser application, the authentication token to the publisher server;

receiving, from the publisher server, the authentication token and a request to authenticate the authentication token; and

authenticating the authentication token, and in response providing to the publisher server an authentication notification that authenticates the authentication token.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein each authentication token is further specific to each publisher server, and wherein a plurality of authentications token are associated with a user account.

8-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A system, comprising:

a data processing apparatus; and

a memory storage device storing instructions executable by the data processing apparatus and that upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising;

generating, for each of a plurality of user devices, a virtual machine instance of a browsing application;

for each virtual machine instance;

instantiating a browser session for an authentication token, each authentication token uniquely corresponding to a user device;

requesting resources from publisher servers, each of the resources being a resource that provides authentication specific information specific to an authentication token, and each resource provides different authentication specific information for each authentication token;

for each publisher server, authenticating the authentication token for the browser session and receiving the authentication specific information in response; and

associating the authentication specific information with only the authentication token for the virtual machine instance;

providing each authentication token and its associated authentication specific information to an indexer that indexes the authentication specific information, the resources, and the authentication token in an authentication specific corpus.

17. A memory storage device storing instructions executable by the data processing apparatus and that upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

generating, for each of a plurality of user devices, a virtual machine instance of a browsing application;

for each virtual machine instance;

instantiating a browser session for an authentication token, each authentication token uniquely corresponding to a user device;

requesting resources from publisher servers, each of the resources being a resource that provides authentication specific information specific to an authentication token, and each resource provides different authentication specific information for each authentication token;

for each publisher server, authenticating the authentication token for the browser session and receiving the authentication specific information in response; and

associating the authentication specific information with only the authentication token for the virtual machine instance;

providing each authentication token and its associated authentication specific information to an indexer that indexes the authentication specific information, the resources, and the authentication token in an authentication specific corpus.

18-21. -21. (canceled)