Patent ID: 7484012
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing to a web browser by a home domain server a home identity cookie having an extensible data area and an enrollment token; performing enrollment through an e-community for a user of said web browser by redirecting said home identity cookie via said web browser to each of a plurality of affiliated domains in said e-community until each affiliated domain has been visited once by said web browser; responsive to each visit to each affiliated domain, sending an affiliated domain identity cookie to said web browser including an enrollment successful indicator; accumulating and persistently storing received enrollment success indicators in said extensible data area of said home identity cookie by said web browser; and subsequently vouching for an identity of said user at an affiliated domain through exchange of a vouch-for request and vouch-for response between said home domain server and an affiliated domain server.