Patent ID: 11936671
Assignee: KOLIDE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method to facilitate access to a protected resource from a client device associated with a user, the client device having a browser, and an agent accessible via a local loopback interface, wherein the method is executed at a cloud-based application, comprising:
during an authentication flow initiated from the client device and that seeks access to the protected resource, the cloud-based application providing the browser a script, the script executed by the browser to request and receive a challenge, to deliver the challenge to the agent via the local loopback interface, to receive from the agent an image that encodes given information, to extract and transform the given information into a blob, and to output the blob to the cloud-based application; and
responsive to the cloud-based application receiving the blob, recovering the given information from the blob; and
using the given information so recovered to verify that the authentication flow is permitted to continue using the client device.