Patent ID: 6950935
Filing Date: 2005-09-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A network management system comprising: a client-side authentication library deployed on one or more client computer systems, wherein the client-side authentication library comprises a client-side interface which is operable to retrieve and encrypt a user profile associated with a user, and wherein the client-side library is implemented in accordance with a platform-independent interface specification and implemented for one or more client platforms respectively corresponding to each of the one or more client computer systems; and a server-side authentication library deployed on a server computer system coupled to the client computer system, wherein the server-side authentication library comprises a server-side interface which is operable to receive the encrypted user profile from the client-side authentication library and decrypt the user profile to authenticate the user for one or more network services, and wherein the server-side library is implemented in accordance with the platform-independent interface specification and implemented for a server platform corresponding to the server computer system.