Patent ID: 11930002
Assignee: LIQUIT SOFTWARE B.V.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 21:
22. A computer-implemented method of authenticating a user, the method comprising:
receiving, at an authentication server, a request from a web browser running on a computing device, the request being received because the web browser has been directed to the authentication server by an application server;
determining whether the user can be authenticated based on the request;
transmitting a response to the web browser if the user could not be authenticated based on the request, the response causing the web browser to contact a local device agent also running on the computing device, the local device agent comprising a local web server;
receiving another request from the web browser, the another request comprising a token for authenticating the user which was obtained by the web browser from the local web server;
determining whether the user can be authenticated based on the token; and
transmitting another response to the web browser to direct the web browser to the application server if the user could be authenticated based on the token, the another response comprising authentication information associated with the token.