Patent ID: 7890643
Filing Date: 2011-02-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method in a sign-on remote computer for providing user credentials to a computer program executing at a second remote computer, the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer being located at different locations remote from a client computer under control of a user, there being a communicative connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, a communicative connection between the sign-on remote computer and the client computer, and a communicative connection between the client computer and the second remote computer, the method comprising the steps of: storing the user credentials in a single sign-on database communicatively connected to the sign-on remote computer; receiving at the sign-on remote computer, via the communicative connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, a request from the computer program executing at the second remote computer for the user credentials containing information identifying the user and useable for accessing the computer program, the computer program having received a request for access from the client computer, via the communicative connection between the client computer and the second remote computer, wherein the request for access did not include the user credentials; obtaining, by the sign-on remote computer, the user credentials from the single sign-on database, wherein the user credentials are specific to the computer program; and sending the user credentials, via the communicative connection between the sign-on remote computer and the second remote computer, from the sign-on remote computer to the computer program executing at the second remote computer in response to the computer program's request.