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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2005
Boyd C. Multerer, Seattle, WA (US);
Ling Tony Chen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Darren L. Anderson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Boyd C. Multerer, Seattle, WA (US);
Ling Tony Chen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Darren L. Anderson, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A console-based multi-user authentication process allows multiple users of a game console to be authenticated together in a single request/reply exchange with an authentication entity. The results of which is the possession of a single ticket that can be used to prove authenticity of multiple authentication principals to one or more online services. Also described is a handshake process that can be used to initially establish an authentication account for each game console, in which the account creation server can trust that a genuine game console is making the request.