Patent ID: 7353282

Claim:
A method of sharing a network resource with a user not currently having access to the network resource, comprising: generating a placeholder in an access list for the network resource, wherein the placeholder contains a known identifier; communicating instructions to a computer of the user, wherein the instructions include instructions to obtain, from an authentication identifier server, an authentication identifier associated with the known identifier; obtaining, at the computer of the user, the authentication identifier associated with the known identifier from the authentication identifier server in response to receiving the instruction; obtaining the authentication identifier associated with the known identifier from the computer of the user upon an attempt to access the network resource; storing a copy of the authentication identifier obtained from the computer of the user in the placeholder that contains the known identifier within the access list; granting the computer of the user access to the network resource upon storing the copy of the authentication identifier; and upon a subsequent attempt to access the network resource, obtaining the authentication identifier from the computer of the user and comparing the authentication identifier obtained from the computer of the user to the authentication identifier stored in the access list to grant the computer of the user access to the network resource.