Patent ID: 11909729
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing website authentication, the method comprising:
receiving, at data processing hardware, a reference uniform resource locator (URL) at a browser, the reference URL comprising a credential identifier and a web authentication host URL, the credential identifier identifying credential data;
determining, by the data processing hardware, that the reference URL adheres to an authentication protocol based on the credential identifier and the web authentication host URL; and
based on determining that the reference URL adheres to the authentication protocol:
extracting, by the data processing hardware, the credential identifier and the web authentication host URL from the reference URL;
obtaining, by the data processing hardware, credential data from a remote service using the credential identifier; and
sending web authentication instructions to the browser, the web authentication instructions comprising:
the web authentication host URL; and
the credential data.