System and method for providing a credential management api
AssigneeMonticello Enterprises LLC
InventorsThomas M. Isaacson, Ryan Connell Durham
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Abstract
Disclosed is an approach for enabling a user to login to a site without needing to manually type in credentials. A method includes receiving, from a site, at a browser and via a browser credential management application programming interface that defines a protocol for communicating data between the site and the browser for enabling a user to login to the site, a request associated with a login credential required for the site, retrieving, based on the request, user data and transmitting, to the site, from the browser and via the browser credential management application programming interface, a response to the request. The response can include such login data as username and password.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, from a site, at a browser and via a browser credential management application programming interface that defines a protocol for communicating data between the site and the browser for enabling a user to login to the site, a request for authorized user data for logging into the site;
- retrieving, based on the request, the authorized user data;
- and
- transmitting, to the site, from the browser and via the browser credential management application programming interface, the authorized user data for use in logging into the site.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer-readable storage device storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a site, at a browser and via a browser credential management application programming interface that defines a protocol for communicating data between the site and the browser for enabling a user to login to the site, a request for authorized user data for logging into the site;
- retrieving, based on the request, the authorized user data;
- and
- transmitting, to the site, from the browser and via the browser credential management application programming interface, the authorized user data for use in logging into the site.
A method comprising:
- transmitting, from a site, to a browser and via a browser credential management application programming interface that defines a protocol for communicating data between the site and the browser for enabling a user to login to the site, a request for authorized user data for use in logging into the site;
- and
- receiving, at the site, from the browser and via the browser credential management application programming interface, the authorized user data in response to the request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.