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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2021
Fortra, Llc, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Anirudhan Rajagopalan, Union City, CA (US);
FORTRA, LLC, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
A system and method for authenticating a user from file protocol for viewing secure data in a browser is provided. The authentication method requires a server dedicated to validate authToken for monitoring document access requests and enforcing rules and policies to limit access to others having invalid authToken. Further, the method for authenticating a user for viewing a secured file in a browser, comprising using cross origin security policies; using history trick functions for redirecting the user back to the file; using signed tokens for making authentication context tampering resistant; using combination of AUTH session token and secret to support multiple AUTH sessions; and using multiple use cases where multiple files can be opened simultaneously with different authorization requirements.