Patent ID: 7681229

Claim:
A method for proxy authentication implemented and executed on a proxy device for performing the method, comprising: receiving, at the proxy device, a first authentication request on a first port of a proxy; forwarding, by the proxy device, the first authentication request to a first authentication service for processing; receiving, by the proxy device, a second authentication request on the first port of the proxy; and forwarding, by the proxy device, the second authentication request to a second authentication service for processing, wherein the first and second authentication services are different from one another and the first and second authentication requests are received over the first port of the proxy and the first authentication service is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication service, and wherein disparate authentication techniques are routed to the first and second authentication services when the corresponding authentication requests are both received over and processed from a single port of the proxy, which is the first port of the proxy, and wherein interactions with the first and the second authentication services occur over the single port of the proxy.