User initiated and controlled identity federation establishment and revocation mechanism

A method for single sign-on with established federation includes triggering a single sign-on operation from a first service to a second service, retrieving, by the first service, an associated federation key and pseudo identification for a user agent, generating, by the first service, a token signed...

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Main Authors HUANG HE YUAN, MCINTOSH MICHAEL, XU JING MIN, AUSTEL PAULA K, WANG BIN
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 28.10.2014
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Summary:A method for single sign-on with established federation includes triggering a single sign-on operation from a first service to a second service, retrieving, by the first service, an associated federation key and pseudo identification for a user agent, generating, by the first service, a token signed with a federation key for the user agent based on the pseudo identification, redirecting, by the first service, the user agent to the second service, wherein the user agent transfers the token to the second service, verifying, by the second service, the token and determining an associated identification in the second service, and returning, by the second service, a resource to the user agent.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201113033029