Patent ID: 9749309
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of enabling a user to access an application via a first trust domain within a closed network, the method comprising the steps of: accessing an account of the user at an identity provider via an adapter module, wherein the adapter module is within the first trust domain and the identity provider is within a second trust domain, wherein the second trust domain is located outside the closed network; obtaining user credentials of the user for the application from the identity provider, wherein a server on which the application operates is within the second trust domain; and using the user credentials for the application to provide the user with access to the application, wherein when the user credentials at the identity provider are different from a user identity of the user in the first trust domain, the adapter module stores at the adapter module a mapping between the user identity and the user credentials, and wherein the user identity in the first trust domain is fixed and used by services running in the first trust domain within the closed network.