Patent ID: 7107615

Claim:
A method for parameter authentication, comprising: discovering an existence of each one of a plurality of authentication agents in a computer system upon each startup of the computer system wherein a total number of the authentication agents existing in the computer system is unknown upon startup of the computer system; concurrently executing all of the authentication agents discovered in the computer system, each of the authentication agents being configured to initiate the performance of at least one authentication task to authenticate an unauthenticated user parameter for one of a plurality of functions, each of the functions corresponding to one of the authentication agents; examining, for each respective one of the authentication agents, an authenticated parameter table to determine whether an unauthenticated user parameter is listed therein before each respective one of the authentication agents is employed to initiate performance of the at least one authentication task; and bypassing, for each respective one of the authentication agents, the initiation of the performance of the authentication task to authenticate the unauthenticated user parameter if the unauthenticated user parameter is listed in the authenticated parameter table.