Patent ID: 9401909
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing single-sign-on capability, the method comprising: receiving at a gateway service an access request sent by a client device, the access request associated with credentials entered by a user of the client device, wherein the client device is successfully authenticated by the gateway service on a selected initial host computer from a cluster of host computers; transmitting the credentials from the gateway service to the selected initial host computer; executing instructions stored in memory of the gateway service, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor of the gateway service automatically erases the credentials from memory of the gateway service subsequent to the successful authentication on the selected initial host computer; receiving at the gateway service a subsequent access request regarding another host computer in the cluster; and forwarding the subsequent access request from the gateway service to the selected initial host computer for authentication based on the credentials.