US 2014/0181944 A1Published application

Single sign-on for a native application and a web application on a mobile device

AssigneeCellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless

InventorsShahid AHMED, Nanda KUMAR, Patrick V. BELLONE

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Abstract

A mobile device includes a session maintainer application, a native application and a shell application and a link to a web application. If a user is seeking to access a native application, and an active session has not been established, user login credential is obtained, a session token is obtained upon verification of the user login credential, and the obtained session token is provided to the native application. If the user is seeking to access a web application, and an active session has not been established, a session token is obtained upon verification of the user login credential and the obtained session token is provided to the shell application. If an active session has been established then the obtained session token is automatically provided to the native or shell application when the user subsequently seeks access to the respective application.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A mobile device, comprising;

a wireless transceiver configured to enable wireless data communication via a network;
at least one user interface element, configured to provide information to a user of the mobile device and receive information from the user of the mobile device;
a memory;
a processor coupled to the wireless transceiver, the at least one user interface element, and the memory;
and
programming stored in the memory for execution by the processor, wherein the programming includes:
a native application for execution by the processor in response to a user input of a credential via the at least one user interface element;
a link to a web application hosted by the network;
a shell application for execution by the processor to configure the mobile device to communicate through the network to access the web application, wherein the shell application is configured to receive the user input of the credential, and wherein upon receipt of the user input of the credential, the shell application is further configured to communicate through the network to access the web application;
and
a session maintainer application, wherein execution of the session maintainer application by the processor configures the mobile device to perform functions, including functions to:
upon execution of a first application of the native application and the web application via the mobile device, when an active session has not yet been established, obtain a user input regarding a credential via the at least one user interface element;
upon successful verification of the user input as corresponding to said credential, obtain a session token, store the session token in the memory, and enable user access to a function provided by execution of the first application via the mobile device;
and
upon execution of the other of the native application and the web application via the mobile device, and based on existence of the session token, enable user access to a function provided by execution of the other application via the mobile device without requiring user input corresponding to said credential.

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An article of manufacture, comprising:

a non-transitory machine readable medium;
a programming for execution by a processor of a mobile device, wherein execution of the programming by the processor configures the mobile device to implement functions, including functions to:
receive, on a mobile device, a request to log into an application;
determine, in response to receiving the each request to log into the application, if a session token is available,
if the session token is not determined to be available:
request a user login credential;
receive, via a login interface, the user login credential;
verify the received user login credential;
and
obtain the session token upon verification of the user login credential;
if the request is a request to log into a native application for execution on the mobile device, provide the session token to the native application for execution on the mobile device;
and
if the request is a request to log into a web application, provide the obtained session token to a shell application for execution on the mobile device, wherein the shell application is configured to provide a user interface for user interaction with the web application.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/727,199Filed 26 Dec 2012
Published: 26 Jun 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04L 63/0815
For authentication of entities: providing single-sign-on or federations
H04L 67/04
Protocols: specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
H04W 12/068
Authentication: using credential vaults, e.g. password manager applications or one time password [OTP] applications
H04L 67/143
Session management: termination or inactivation of sessions, e.g. event-controlled end of session