FORM FILLING WITH DIGITAL IDENTITIES, AND AUTOMATIC PASSWORD GENERATION

• US 20150096000A1
• Filed: 12/08/2014
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Sharif, Tariq, Nanda, Arun K., Franco, Roberto A., Randall, Richard
• Granted Patent: US 9,450,954 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/6
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/168 above the transport layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

In one implementation, form field(s) of a form of a website or application are populated with data obtained using a digital identity, and the populated form field(s) are submitted to the website or application. A form field specification specifying information about the form fields of the form is obtained. A user selects or creates a digital identity. Data is obtained using the digital identity, and the data is used to provide values to the form. The data is submitted to the website or application. In another implementation, a username and password are automatically generated. The username and password that are generated meet parameters that may be specified by the website or application. The username and password are submitted to the website or application for a purpose such as registration or authentication, and stored away for future authentication.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage devices having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, causes the computing system to perform the following:

an act of obtaining a username and password specification of an application or website;

an act of automatically generating a username and password pair which conforms to the obtained username and password specification;

an act of securely storing the generated username and password pair such that it can be recalled by the computing system for future authentication at the application or website.

2. A computer program product in accordance with claim 1, wherein the one or more computer-readable storage devices are magnetic and/or optical devices.

3. A computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein the generated username and password pair is unique from username and password pairs generated by the computing system for other applications or websites.

4. A computer program product in accordance with claim 3, which also causes the computing system to automatically login or otherwise authenticate to the application or website to which the generated username and password pair corresponds.

5. A computer program product in accordance with claim 3, wherein the computing system comprises a web browser client computing system and the application or website comprises a website.

6. A computer program product in accordance with claim 5, which also causes the computing system to prompt a user to select or create a digital identity to use for subsequent authentication at the website.

7. A computer program product in accordance with claim 6, which also causes the computing system to associate the generated username and password pair with the website and with the user-selected or user-created digital identity.

8. A computer program product in accordance with claim 7, which also prompts the user to select a digital identity when the website which is associated with the generated username and password pair is subsequently visited, and which also causes the computing system to automatically login or otherwise authenticate to the website.