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Optimizing authentication service availability and responsiveness via client-side routing

  • US 7,188,359 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2002
  • Issued: 03/06/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for authenticating a user to a primary authentication server or a secondary authentication server with pre-submission test authentication, said secondary authentication server is used when said primary authentication server is unavailable, comprising the steps of:

  • a Web browsing device fetching a login page from a Web server, said login page containing a login form and a routing module;

    submitting a login request with an identifier of said user and an associated password from said Web browsing device; and

    said Web browsing device invoking said routing module to determine routing by performing said pre-submission test authentication with the following sub-steps;

    registering a routing code event handler to be called upon successful pre-submission test authentication;

    registering a callback event in a configurable delay time;

    sending said pre-submission test authentication request to said primary authentication server without submitting said login form or leaving said login page;

    processing said pre-submission test authentication request and sending response to said Web browsing device by said primary authentication server;

    if a successful response to said pre-submission test authentication request is received from said primary authentication server within said delay time, said Web browsing device submitting said login form to said primary authentication server; and

    otherwise said Web browsing device submitting said login form to said secondary authentication server.

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