Patent ID: 11870767
Assignee: F5, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A network traffic manager apparatus, comprising memory comprising programmed instructions stored in the memory and one or more processors configured to be capable of executing the programmed instructions stored in the memory to:
receive a request to access an application from a client;
identify a web application server in which the requested application is executing and obtaining data associated with the requesting client;
generate a federated authentication request comprising an index unique to the identified web application server and the obtained client data, wherein the index is mapped to an access policy within a memory of the web application server;
authenticate the requesting client on a separate IDP server using the generated authentication request by using a federated token that maps to the identified web application server, the requested application, and the obtained client data and by using the mapping between the index and the access policy; and
validate the authentication prior to providing the client access to the application, wherein the validating the authentication further comprises sending a communication to the identified web application server to verify an assertion or the federated token of the generated authentication request.