Patent · US Expired

Method for checking user access

US6983377B1 · kind B1 · utility

43Cited by

6References

13Claims

0Family size

Assignee

SOFTWARE GMBH · DE

Inventors

Neil Beesley · Issaquah, US
Dietmar Gaertner · Ober-Ramstadt, DE
James Holme · Emmelshausen, DE
Terence G. Kennedy · Darmstadt, DE
Dieter Kessler · Darmstadt, DE
Thomas Vogler · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 24, 1999
Grant date	Jan 3, 2006
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 24, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L63/0435
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A trusted agent for enabling the check of the access of a user operating a first computer system controlled by a first security system to software and/or data on a second computer system controlled by a second security system. The trusted agent includes several functions, including: (a) reception of a user-id for the second computer system and transmission of the user-id to the second security system; (b) retrieval of a shared secret, which is registered in the fist security system and in the second security system, from the second security system; and (3) transmission of the shared secret from the trusted agent to the second computer system.

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