The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2012
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Jeremy Roger Mason, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
User access to a protected resource is controlled by: intercepting a request from a client browser () directed to a server (); requesting user credentials from the client browser (); processing user credentials received from the client browser () to authenticate the user (); redirecting the client browser () to an authorization server () configured to issue a token credential; intercepting an authorization request from the browser () to the authorization server (), and inserting into the authorization request an HTTP header variable indicating the authentication status of the user (). The authorization server () is arranged to issue a token credential, which may be used by the user () to obtain a token for indicating to a server () hosting the protected resource authorization of the user () to access the protected resource.