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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
May. 03, 2017
Barracuda Networks, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Fleming Shi, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Luo Wang, Milpitas, CA (US);
BARRACUDA NETWORKS, INC., Campbell, CA (US);
Abstract
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support bulk authentication of a device associated with a user to all cloud-based services the device intends to access in one transaction instead of authenticating the device against each of the services individually. First, the device generates and transmits to one or more authentication service clusters an authentication request that includes its identification and authentication credentials in order to access to a plurality of services. Upon receiving the authentication request, the authentication service cluster(s) authenticate the device for all of the services to be accessed based on the information in the authentication request. Once the device is authenticated, the authentication service cluster(s) then retrieve entitlement information of the services to be accessed by the device, and identify the service clusters/nodes that the device will connect to for the services with the fastest response time.