Patent ID: 8219814

Claim:
A user credential management system in a mobile device, comprising: a computer readable storage medium in the mobile device, for storing instructions or statements for use in the execution in a computer of a method of managing user credentials, the method comprising receiving, by a receiver of the mobile device, at least one user credential sent by an authentication server; storing, in a repository of the mobile device, the at least one user credential received by the receiver; authenticating, on the mobile device, the user login based on the at least one user credential stored in the repository of the mobile device thereby enabling authentication of the user login even when a connection to the authentication server is not available; determining, on the mobile device, a user credential associated with the user login; and associating the user credential associated with the user login to a message sent from the mobile device to the authentication server after authentication of the user login, and wherein the at least one user credential is stored in a repository of the authentication server, and wherein the step of associating the user credential associated with the user login to the message sent from the mobile device to the authentication server comprises associating the message between a foreign server and the mobile device with the at least one user credential.