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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2012
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
David W. Bailey, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lin Huang, Redmond, WA (US);
Lynn C. Ayres, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yordan I Rouskov, Kirkland, WA (US);
Wei-Quiang Michael Guo, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of authenticating linked accounts are presented herein. In an implementation, an authentication service provides functionality to form links between a plurality of user accounts. A client may then authenticate by providing credentials for one account in a group of linked accounts, and is permitted access to each account in the group of linked accounts based upon the linking. Thus, a single sign-in of a client to one account may permit the client to obtain services for service providers corresponding to multiple linked accounts, without an individual sign-in to each account.