Patent ID: 9330280
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: registering, at an identity management system, a plurality of applications, wherein each respective application in the plurality of applications has multiple levels of access permission and allows a different level of access permission from the multiple levels of access permission to the respective application in the plurality of applications based on a user role associated with a user accessing the respective application; receiving, at the identity management system, a user profile associated with a user, the user profile including receiving, at the identity management system, an access request for the user to access the first application; responsive to the access request, authenticating the user to access the first application by comparing a submitted login credential received from the user with the established login credential associated with the user and stored in the user profile; upon successful authentication of the user to access the first application, determining the user role associated with the user; upon successful authentication of the user to access the first application and based upon the indication that the second application is to be automatically started and authenticated upon successful authentication of the user to access the first application, automatically starting the second application and authenticating the user to access the second application; and allowing access to functions of the first application and to functions of the second application corresponding to the determined user role.