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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2016
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Sean Michael Quinlan, Duvall, WA (US);
Haniff Somani, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Alibek Jorajev, Erith, GB;
Sanjiv Maurya, Fremont, CA (US);
Gary Gilchrist, Millbrae, CA (US);
Luis Chirinos, Dover, DE (US);
Kevin Charles Lohman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nicholas Van Someren, Atherton, CA (US);
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
Methods and systems for managing access to a resource by one of a plurality of applications. The method comprises: storing, in a first storage area associated with a first application, a first credential for use in accessing the resource; receiving, at a second application, a message comprising data for determining that the first application stores a validated credential for accessing the resource; sending a request for the validated credential from the second application to the first application; receiving the first credential at the second application from the first application in response to the request sent; and storing the first credential in a second storage area associated with the second application; wherein the message received at the second application is received from a server system, remote from the plurality of applications, which maintains data indicating a subset of the plurality of applications which store respective validated credentials for accessing the resource.