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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2007
Ravi Singh Sandhu, Oak Hill, VA (US);
Ravi Ganesan, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Andrew Paul Cottrell, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy Scott Renshaw, Cumming, GA (US);
Brett Jason Schoppert, Leesburg, VA (US);
Kyle Austin, New York, NY (US);
Ravi Singh Sandhu, Oak Hill, VA (US);
Ravi Ganesan, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Andrew Paul Cottrell, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy Scott Renshaw, Cumming, GA (US);
Brett Jason Schoppert, Leesburg, VA (US);
Kyle Austin, New York, NY (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
To authenticate a user of a communications network, credentials from the user are centrally receiving. An authentication sequence is retrieved from a plurality of retrievable authentication sequences, and the retrieved authentication sequence is performed to authenticate the user based on the received credentials.