Patent ID: 8984588
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising facilitating access, including granting access rights, to an interface to allow access to a service via a network, the service comprising: determining whether a user associated with a request for a particular network resource is to be identified by the provider of the particular service or by a different party; when the user is to be identified by the different party, causing the different party to provide identification data that indicates an identity for the user; and when the identification data indicates that the user is successfully identified, causing user credentials data based on the identification data to be sent to an authentication process of the provider for a set of one or more network resources that includes the particular network resource requested by the user, wherein the user credentials data include an indication that the user is successfully identified by the different party, and wherein causing the different party to provide the identification data that indicates the identity for the user further comprises: causing an identification user interface message to be sent to user equipment with a redirect to the different party, wherein the redirect includes data so that a response by the user equipment is further redirected to an ID federation gateway.