Patent ID: 8839357

Claim:
A method for authenticating a first computing device to one or more other computing devices, the method comprising: receiving, at a first computing device, a first credential and a second credential, the first credential for authenticating to a second computing device, the second credential for authenticating to a third computing device, the first credential different from the second credential; sending, from the first computing device to the second computing device, a first message that includes the first credential and the second credential; sending, from the first computing device to the third computing device, a second message that includes the first credential and the second credential; receiving, at the first computing device from the second computing device, a response to the first message, the response to the first message comprising information indicating whether the first computing device is authenticated to the second computing device; and receiving, at the first computing device from the third computing device, a response to the second message, the response to the second message comprising information indicating whether the first computing device is authenticated to the third computing device.