System,method and apparatus for federated single sign-on services

The advent of new and sophisticated web services provided by Service Providers to users, services that individually require authentication of users and authorization of access, brings the needs for a new service to facilitate such authentication and access, a service referred to as Single Sign-On (S...

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Main Authors JOHN MICHAEL WALKER, JES³S-ANGEL DE GREGORIO, LUIS BARRIGA, AVELINA PARDO BLAZQUEZ
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 10.11.2004
Edition7
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Summary:The advent of new and sophisticated web services provided by Service Providers to users, services that individually require authentication of users and authorization of access, brings the needs for a new service to facilitate such authentication and access, a service referred to as Single Sign-On (SSO). The basic principle behind SSO is that users are authenticated once at a particular level, and then access all their subscribed services accepting that level of authentication. The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus wherein a cellular Federation of mobile network operators becomes an SSO authentication authority for subscribers of this Federation accessing Service Providers having such agreement with a mobile network operator of the Federation. In accordance with this invention, mobile network operators can leverage their operator-subscriber trust relationship in order to act as SSO authentication authority for those subscribers accessing Service Providers in a service domain other than the mobile network domain.
Bibliography:Application Number: GB20040015391