Patent ID: 6769068
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A computer program product embodied on a computer-readable medium, for dynamically refreshing user credentials without disruption of an on-going secure process, comprising:computer-readable code means for generating a user credential for a user of a client machine, wherein said user credential comprises authorization data for said user, an authenticated identity of said user, an expiration time of said credential, and a last authentication time of said user; computer-readable code means for requesting, by said user, an execution of a secure process on a server connected to said client machine through a network; computer-readable code means for providing said user credential to said server for use with said requested execution; computer-readable code means for performing said requested execution; and computer-readable code means for refreshing said credential if said credential is determined to be expired during operation of said computer-readable code means for performing, wherein said expiration is determined by checking said expiration time, and wherein said computer-readable code means for performing continues by using said refreshed credential.