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User authentication in a cloud environment

  • US 9,124,569 B2
  • Filed: 06/14/2013
  • Issued: 09/01/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A client computer system comprising the following:

  • one or more processors;

    system memory;

    one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing system to perform a method for authenticating a user to a remote application provisioning service, the method comprising the following;

    an act of receiving one or more authentication credentials from a user at the client computing system to authenticate the user to a remote application provisioning service that provides virtual machine-hosted remote applications;

    an act of sending the received authentication credentials to an authentication service, the authentication service being configured to generate an encrypted token based on the received authentication credentials;

    an act of receiving the generated encrypted token from the authentication service;

    an act of storing the received encrypted token and the received authentication credentials in a data store; and

    an act of sending the encrypted token and the authentication credentials to a virtual machine that is hosting a particular application prior to the particular application being instantiated for the user, the encrypted token being used with the authentication credentials to facilitate a logon at the virtual machine.

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