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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2004
Keith W. Ballinger, North Bend, WA (US);
Hongmei GE, Issaquah, WA (US);
Hervey O. Wilson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vick B. Mukherjee, Redmond, WA (US);
Keith W. Ballinger, North Bend, WA (US);
HongMei Ge, Issaquah, WA (US);
Hervey O. Wilson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vick B. Mukherjee, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides for maintaining security context during a communication session between applications, without having to have executable code in either application for obtaining or generating a security context token (SCT) used to secure the communication. On a service side, a configuration file is provided that can be configured to indicate that automatic issuance of a SCT is enabled, thereby allowing a Web service engine to generate the SCT upon request. On the client side, when a message is sent from the client application to the service application, a policy engine accesses a policy that includes assertions indicating that a SCT is required for messages destined for the Web service application. As such, the policy engine requests and receives the SCT, which it uses to secure the message.