Patent ID: 8707409

Claim:
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising: an SSO proxy unit configured to: receive user authentication data from a user, obtain a request for one or more user credentials for authenticating with a service provider of a service, access the user credentials from a security module using the user authentication data received from the user, and provide the user credentials to a web accessing application (WAA); the security module being configured to: store user authentication data and the user credentials for authenticating the user with the service provider, compare the received user authentication data to the stored user authentication data to authenticate the user with the WTRU, and forward the stored user credentials to the SSO proxy unit when the user is authenticated with the WTRU; and the WAA being configured to automatically receive the user credentials provided by the SSO proxy unit and transmit the provided user credentials to the service provider to authenticate the user with the service provider.