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Strong authentication via a federated identity protocol

US9191381B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Symantec Corporation · US

Inventors

Nicolas Popp · Menlo Park, US
Alan Dundas · Los Altos Hills, US
Siddharth Bajaj · San Francisco, US
Mingliang Pei · Palo Alto, US
Liyu Yi · Fremont, US
John Casey SMITH · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 25, 2011
Grant date	Nov 17, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 25, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L2463/082
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computing system of an authentication service provider receives a federated identity protocol request triggered by a relying party to validate a user. The federated identity protocol request includes a user identifier of an authenticated identity. The computing system searches mapping data stored in a data store that is coupled to the computing system to identify a type of virtual token associated with the user identifier and authenticates the user by requesting the identified type of virtual token from a user device and verifying a virtual token received from the user device using the mapping data. The computing system sends second-factor authentication results to the relying party via the federated identity protocol.

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