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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2008
Suresh N. Chari, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Gang Chen, Syosset, NY (US);
Todd Eric Kaplinger, Raleigh, NC (US);
Suresh N. Chari, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Gang Chen, Syosset, NY (US);
Todd Eric Kaplinger, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer program product for enabling authentication of an OpenID user when a requested identity provider is unavailable. A relying party receives a login request from the OpenID user, where the login request includes a username. The relying party reads a list of trusted identity providers that are associated with the received username and selects one of those identity providers. The relying party generating an OpenID identifier using an identification (e.g., Uniform Resource Locator) of the selected identity provider and the username. The relying party transmits an authentication request (request to authenticate the OpenID user) to the selected identity provider using the formed OpenID identifier. If the selected identity provider is unavailable, then the relying party selects another identity provider from the list of identity providers that are associated with the received username and repeats the above process.