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US 2009/0158392 A1Published application
Dynamic authentication gateway
AssigneeVerizon Business Network Services Inc.
InventorsJeffrey W. Hughes, Andrew L. Bates, Thomas C. Adams, Brent W. Maier
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Abstract
A dynamic authentication broker is configured to process authentication requests received from a network access server formatted in any of a plurality of protocols and received over any of a plurality of ports. Processing authentication requests may include authenticating and/or authorizing a particular user, user device and/or network access server.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- binding each of a plurality of services to one of a plurality of ports;
- configuring at least a subset of the ports for receiving authentication requests in one of a plurality of distinct protocols;
- receiving an authentication request on one of the plurality of services, the authentication request formatted according to one of the plurality of distinct protocols;
- determining an authentication mechanism capable of processing the authentication request from a plurality of distinct authentication mechanisms;
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- transmitting at least a portion of the authentication request to the authentication mechanism.
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A system comprising:
- a dynamic authentication broker including a plurality of services running thereon, wherein each of the plurality of services is configured to receive an incoming authentication request over at least one port in at least one of a plurality of distinct authentication protocols, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of authentication protocols are distinct, and to determine an appropriate authentication mechanism to process the authentication request from a plurality of authentication mechanisms, at least a subset of the plurality of authentication mechanisms configured to process authentication requests in distinct authentication formats.
A system comprising:
- a dynamic authentication broker including a plurality of services running thereon, each of the plurality of services bound to one of a plurality of distinct ports and configured to process an incoming authentication request in one of a plurality of distinct authentication protocols, each of the services further configured to determine an authentication mechanism configured to process the received authentication request from a plurality of distinct authentication mechanisms, each of the plurality of distinct authentication mechanisms configured to process authentication requests in one of a plurality of distinct authentication protocols, each of the plurality of services in communication with at least one user account and configured to format an authentication response based on at least one data parameter retrieved from the at least one user account.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.