Patent ID: 9553868
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: providing, by a service, a first mechanism by which users of the service may sign on to the service using native authentication of the service; providing, by the service, a second mechanism by which users of the service may sign on to the service using a third-party single-sign-on provider; storing, at the service, data that identifies a plurality of teams; storing, at the service, data that identifies at least one administrator of each of the plurality of teams; enabling an administrator of each team of the plurality of teams to access and use a tool to specify which sign-on options, of a plurality of sign-on options made available by the service, are assigned to members of the team to which the administrator belongs; wherein the plurality of sign-on options includes at least a particular sign-on option in which both the first mechanism and the second mechanism may be used; and wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.