Patent ID: 9264436
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of managing grant of consent to access a protected resource, the protected resource associated with a resource owner, comprising: upon receipt of a request to access a protected resource, the request having a scope and being associated with a second web client, performing an analysis based on a universal resource identifier (URI) associated with the request to identify a characteristic of the second web client, the analysis being performed using a computing entity having a hardware element; based on the characteristic of the second web client and the scope of the request, applying a policy to determine whether the second web client is entitled to receive an automated consent to access the protected resource as a result of a consent having been previously granted by the resource owner to a first web client; and when, based on the policy the second web client is entitled to receive the automated consent, returning given information useful by the second web client to obtain access to the protected resource without requiring an explicit consent from the resource owner; when the second web client is not entitled to receive the automated consent to access the protected resource issuing a prompt to the resource owner to obtain explicit consent.