Extensible authentication system and method
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsTravis Myron Cossel, Chris Richard Gunning
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Abstract
A system, method, and a program embodied on a computer readable medium for performing authentication tasks is provided. In one embodiment, the system comprises a number of authentication agents, each of the authentication agents authenticating at least one user parameter by performing at least one authentication task. The system also includes an authentication manager that requests each of the authentication agents to authenticate an unauthenticated user parameter.
Claims23
An authentication system, comprising:
- a number of authentication agents, each of the authentication agents authenticating at least one user parameter by performing at least one authentication task;
- and
- an authentication manager that requests each of the authentication agents to authenticate an unauthenticated user parameter.
An authentication method, comprising:
- providing for a number of authentication agents, each of the authentication agents being configured to perform at least one authentication task;
- requesting each of the authentication agents to authenticate an unauthenticated user parameter;
- and
- obtaining a response from each of the authentication agents indicating whether the unauthenticated user parameter has been authenticated.
A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium for performing authentication, comprising:
- code that embodies a number of authentication agents, each of the authentication agents authenticating at least one user parameter by performing at least one authentication task;
- and
- code that embodies an authentication manager that requests each of the authentication agents to authenticate an unauthenticated user parameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.