Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andreas K Luther

Cristian Marius Ilac

Tanmoy Dutta

Gennady Medvinsky

Girish Chander

Bronislav Kavsan

Liquiang Zhu

Ziquian Li

Paul J Leach

John Peter Shewchuk

Mark Fishel Novak

David Benson Cross

Thomas C Jones

Liqiang Zhu

Ziquan Li

Oded Ye Shekel

Example embodiments are provided for integrating operating systems with content offered by internet based entities.

Integrating operating systems with content offered by web based entities

Embodiments for providing differentiated access based on authentication input attributes are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a method includes receiving an authentication input at an authentication authority using an authentication protocol. The authentication input being associated with a client. The method also includes providing one or more representations for the authentication input, wherein each of the representations represents an attribute of the authentication input.

Selective authorization based on authentication input attributes

Architecture for natively authenticating a client application to a web server via HTTP authentication. The Web Services Architecture, and more specifically, Web Services Security, is leveraged to enable legacy applications to access web services transparently to the existing legacy applications. A security support provider (SSP) is created that employs WS-* protocol to at least emulate ws-trust and ws-mex thereby enabling policy exchange via an HTTP protocol stack. Policy can be exchanged via a WWW-Authenticate header enabling legacy applications to use the WS-* family of protocols without modifying the client application. The WS-* protocols are abstracted into a generic programming interface for native client application use.

Native use of web service protocols and claims in server authentication

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Andreas K Luther