Sharing a sign-in among software applications having secured features

A computer program product readable by a computing system and encoding instructions for executing a computer process for logging-in to a software application, wherein the software application has one or more secured features, said computer process comprising:

• receiving a request to enter a logged-in state within a single software application;
• verifying a credential to enter an access logged-in state within the single software application;
• detecting whether one or more other software applications are open;
• and
• in response to one or more other software applications being open, advancing the open software applications to a ready logged-in state with access to the credential.

A system for sharing a sign-in operation among two or more applications, each application having at least one secured feature, the system comprising:

• a receipt module receiving a request to sign-in to a first running software application having a secured feature;
• a credential module validating a sign-in input for the first running software application and changing the state of the first running software application to an access signed-in state indicating access to a secured feature;
• and
• a transition module responsive to the credential module changing the state of a second running software application having a secure feature to a ready signed-in state with access to the sign-in input.