Patent ID: 8863262

Claim:
A method comprising: presenting, using a computing device, to a first user, first information in a first web page in a first web domain prior to the first user having visited a second web domain that is different from the first web domain, wherein the first information relates to the second web domain; responsive to the first user selecting the first information, authenticating, using the computing device, the first user in the first web domain; wherein the first web domain temporarily allocates a first identity from a plurality of first web domain credentials and assigns the first identity to the first user; and responsive to authenticating the first user in the first web domain, forwarding, using the computing device, the first user to a second web page in the second web domain, including identifying the first user as being an authenticated user of the first web domain, without revealing an identity of the first user; wherein the first identity is recognizable by the second web domain as a first web domain credential and allows the first user access to the second web domain based at least in part on the first identity.