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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2006
Applicants:

Atul Vijay Tulshibagwale, Cupertino, CA (US);

Gregory Ryan Whitehead, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Atul Vijay Tulshibagwale, Cupertino, CA (US);

Gregory Ryan Whitehead, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

One embodiment relates to a method of managing trust relationships between federated identity and service providers. An assertion of a user identity is received from an identity provider via a first federation protocol, wherein a destination service provider is indicated with the assertion. Permission of the user identity to access the destination service provider is verified. If permission is verified, the user identity is asserted to the destination service provider via a second federation protocol. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.


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