Patent ID: 9130935
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing access credentials associated with a user of a first terminal to a service server comprising a service, the method comprising: receiving, at a proxy server, from the first terminal, a request to establish a first data connection, the request including user identification data; identifying, at the proxy server, authentication credentials associated with the user of the first terminal; verifying, at the proxy server, the received user identification data based on the identified authentication credentials associated with the user of the first terminal; establishing, at the proxy server, the first data connection with the first terminal based on verifying the received user identification data; establishing, at the proxy server, a second data connection with the service server after verifying the received user identification data; bridging, at the proxy server, the first data connection and the second data connection in order to establish a first communications session using a first communications protocol between the first terminal and the service server; establishing, at the proxy server, a second communications session using a second communications protocol between the proxy server and the service server; receiving, at the proxy server from the service server, via the second communications session, a request for access credentials associated with the user, the request including information received by the service server via the first communications session, wherein the access credentials associated with the user are different from the user identification data; identifying, at the proxy server, the access credentials associated with the user based on the information received by the service server; and transmitting, from the proxy server to the service server, the identified access credentials via the second communications session.