Intermediary server, method for controlling intermediary server, and program for controlling intermediary server

Abstract

The invention relates to an intermediary server that intermediates between at least one authentication server that performs authentication and a plurality of devices that performs various kinds of processing in accordance with the result of the authentication performed by the authentication server. The invention provides, as an aspect thereof, the intermediary server that includes: a request reception unit that receives authentication request data from any of the plurality of devices, the authentication request data being created in a predetermined common data format in such a manner that the authentication request data contains, without any limitation thereto, identification information that was inputted into the above-mentioned one of the plurality of devices; an authentication server communication unit that transmits the received identification information to the authentication server in a data format that can be processed by the authentication server and then receives, from the authentication server, the result of authentication performed by the authentication server on the basis of the transmitted identification information; and a result transmission unit that transmits the received result of the authentication to the above-mentioned one of the plurality of devices that is the original sender of the authentication request data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.