Patent ID: 11882120
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions executable by a processor of an identity intermediary, the processor upon execution to:
receive a request to access a first service of a plurality of services of a network from a principal, wherein the request comprises a service identifier of the first service;
store, in a storage device of the identity intermediary, the service identifier of the first service;
send an unsigned credential of the principal and a principal identifier to a credential provider;
receive the principal identifier and credential signed by the credential provider, wherein the signed credential indicates validation of the credential;
responsive to receiving the credential signed by the credential provider, look up the principal identifier in the storage device to determine the service identifier of the first service; and
send the signed credential of the principal to a service provider providing the first service for authentication.