Patent ID: 11968182
Assignee: AUTOMATION ANYWHERE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of authenticating a service request to a cloud-based service of at least one service provider, the method comprising:
receiving a remote authentication request, the remote authentication request including at least a user identifier corresponding to a user;
extracting the user identifier from the remote authentication request;
determining whether the user identifier is valid;
retrieving an encrypted access identifier corresponding to the user identifier, provided that the determining has determined that the user identifier is valid;
forming an authentication token request, the authentication token request including at least the encrypted access identifier;
sending the authentication token request to a gateway proxy providing a gateway to the cloud-based service of the at least one service provider;
subsequently receiving an authentication token from the gateway proxy; and
returning the authentication token received from the gateway proxy in response to the remote authentication request,
wherein the service request is from a local processing agent, and
wherein the local processing agent is a software automation process supported by a robotic processing automation system, the robotic processing automation system supporting a plurality of software automation processes.