Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Meir Mendelovich

John Eugene Neystadt

Nir Nice

Ken Aoyama

Shay Yehuda Gurman

Ron Matchoro

Khaja Ehteshamuddin Ahmed

Eugene (John) Neystadt

Shai Kariv

Dany Hoter

Sharon Laivand

Ran Dolev

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to a simplified login for mobile devices. In aspects, on a first logon, a mobile device asks a user to enter credentials and a PIN. The credentials and PIN are sent to a server which validates user credentials. If the user credentials are valid, the server encrypts data that includes at least the user credentials and the PIN and sends the encrypted data to the mobile device. In subsequent logons, the user may logon using only the PIN. During login, the mobile device sends the PIN in conjunction with the encrypted data. The server can then decrypt the data and compare the received PIN with the decrypted PIN. If the PINs are equal, the server may grant access to a resource according to the credentials.

Simplified login for a computing system

Simplified login for mobile devices

Disclosed herein is a system and method for allowing access to secure resources through a gateway without having to pre-configure the gateway with each specific URL that access is to be granted as well as maintaining the list of resources that are exposed. The gateway is configured to take incoming requests from client devices, such as the URL, and determine from the URL itself what type of authentication is required to gain access to the resource as opposed to comparing the URL with a managed list of URL's. Once the authentication process is identified by the gateway that process is implemented. The gateway analyzes the responses from the resources that may include denials or user authentication requests from the resource to determine the authentication process to use to gain access to the resource. Once authenticated the communications traffic between the client/user and the resource is permitted through the gateway.

Automatic detection of authentication methods by a gateway

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for automatically enriching data in tables of report documents. A table of data contained in a document is received. A category of data stored in a column of the table of data is determined Enhancement information associated with the determined category is retrieved. The enhancement information may include visual enhancements (e.g., symbols, images, etc.) and/or may include reference data that is related to the determined category of column data. A user is enabled to select enhancement information of the retrieved enhancement information. The selected enhancement information is displayed in the document. The user is enabled to accept the selected enhancement information to be stored in the document.

Enrichment of data using a semantic auto-discovery of reference and visual data

Authenticating a client device to a service to allow the client device to access a resource provided by the service. A client device obtains a secondary credential that is associated with a primary credential and that is generated as being usable by a particular set of devices including the client device to indirectly gain access to the service through the primary credential. While outside of an enterprise network, the client device requests access to the service, including sending the secondary credential to an enterprise gateway. Based at least on sending the secondary credential to the enterprise gateway, the client device receives a resource from the service. The resource is received based at least on the enterprise gateway having forwarded the primary credential to the service after verifying that the secondary credential is valid and that the client device is in the particular set of client devices.

Resource protection on un-trusted devices

Authenticating a user to a first service to allow the user to access a resource provided by the first service. The resource is a protected resource requiring a general purpose credential (e.g. a user name and/or password) to access the resource. The method includes receiving at a second service, from the device, an ad-hoc credential. The ad-hoc credential is a credential that is particular to the device. The ad-hoc credential can be used to authenticate both the user and the device, but cannot be directly used to as authentication at the first service for the user to access the resource. The method further includes, at the second service, substituting the general purpose credential for the ad-hoc credential and forwarding the general purpose credential to the first service. As such the first service can provide the resource to the user at the device.

Architecture that utilizes the strong authentication mechanisms of network operators to provide authentication to mobile applications by identity federation. When a mobile client initiates request for access to an application outside the network operation infrastructure, the request is passed to an associated application secure token service. The application secure token service has an established trust and identity federation with the network operator. The application secure token service redirects the request to a network operator security token server, which then passes the request to a network operator authentication server for authentication against an operator identity service. Proof of authentication is then issued and returned from the network operator security token server to the application secure token service and the application, which allows the mobile client to access the application.

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Rishon LeZiyyon, Israel

Meir Mendelovich