Patent ID: 7636852
Filing Date: 2009-12-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A password management system, comprising: a plurality of enterprise applications accessible by a desktop computer by providing user authentication information, wherein the user authentication information for a user is unique with respect to the user for at least two of the plurality of enterprise applications such that the user authentication information for the user for a first one of the at least two of the plurality of enterprise applications is different from the authentication information for the user for a second one of the at least two of the plurality of enterprise applications; an application security data store that stores the user authentication information; an authentication component; a web server that communicates with the authentication component to authenticate a request for web services and forwards a request for the user authentication information; an application server that receives the request for the user authentication from the web server for user authentication information; a password management application executed by the application server, the password management application that requests the user authentication information related to one or more of the enterprise applications from the application security data store, the password management application further updates the unique user authentication information maintained by the application security data store; and a password management client resident on the desktop computer in communication with the web server, the password management client uses single sign-on information to be authenticated by the authentication component and obtain the user authentication information for one or more of the enterprise applications from the password management application, the password management client further uses the obtained user authentication information to access the one or more enterprise applications.