System and control method therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazunari Yamanakajima
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Abstract
A system includes an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user based on the user information received at the access by the access unit, and a setting unit configured to set an authentication token indicating that the user has logged in and identification information indicating that the user has logged in via the integrated entrance server into cookie information on the web browser in response to a success in the authentication of the user by the authentication unit, and wherein a transition of the web browser in the system is controlled based on the cookie information on the web browser.
Claims10
A system comprising:
- a plurality of authentication servers each provided in a different one of regions;
- an integrated entrance server configured to provide a login page;
- and
- a client configured to include a web browser,
- wherein the integrated entrance server includes
- an identification unit configured to identify a region to which a user belongs, based on user information, in response to receipt of the user information input by the user via the login page from the web browser, and
- a transmission unit configured to transmit information regarding the region identified by the identification unit to the web browser,
- wherein the client includes an access unit configured to access one authentication server among the plurality of authentication servers provided in the regions, respectively, based on the information transmitted by the transmission unit,
- wherein the authentication server that has received the access by the access unit includes
- an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user based on the user information received at the access by the access unit, and
- a setting unit configured to set an authentication token indicating that the user has logged in and identification information indicating that the user has logged in via the integrated entrance server into cookie information on the web browser in response to a success in the authentication of the user by the authentication unit, and
- wherein a transition of the web browser in the system is controlled based on the cookie information on the web browser.
A method for controlling a system including a plurality of authentication servers each provided in a different one of regions, an integrated entrance server configured to provide a login page, and a client including a web browser, the method comprising:
- in the integrated entrance server,
- identifying a region to which a user belongs, based on user information, according to receipt of the user information input by the user via the login page from the web browser;
- transmitting information regarding the region identified by the identifying to the web browser;
- in the client,
- accessing one authentication server among the plurality of authentication servers each provided in a different one of the regions based on the information transmitted by the transmitting;
- in the authentication server that has received the access by the accessing,
- authenticating the user based on the user information received at the access by the accessing;
- setting an authentication token indicating that the user has logged in and identification information indicating that the user has logged in via the integrated entrance server into cookie information on the web browser in response to a success in the authentication of the user by the authenticating;
- and
- controlling a transition of the web browser in the system based on the cookie information on the web browser.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.