US 2025/0063035 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SINGLE SIGN ON ACROSS MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS WITH LICENSE ENABLEMENT

Abstract

A multifunction peripheral (MFP) includes user selectable functions that call home applications on the device that direct it to work cooperatively with cloud service providers. To avoid requiring users to login to each cloud service each time they use it, they are registered with an authorization server to establish and grant identity and authorization tokens. When a user logs in to an MFP, they are redirected to login to the authorization server which then sends tokens to the MFP identifying the user and their permissions and licenses. Home applications associated by the tokens are displayed for selection. Each time a home application using a cloud service is selected, a background application sends the user's session tokens with a service request to an associated cloud service resource server. The resource servers processes authenticated requests and return the result to the MFP which completes the selected home application function. Therefore, the user is able to use multiple cloud services without need to login to them.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a processor and associated memory;
a network interface;
a document processing engine;
and
a user interface including a user input and a display;
wherein the processor is configured to
receive login information from an associated user via the user interface,
redirect received login information to an authorization sever via the network interface,
receive, via the network interface, one or more data tokens corresponding to the user from the authorization server responsive to the redirected login information,
store each received data token in the memory,
show indicia on the display corresponding a user selectable application for each received data token, wherein each application is associated with a document processing operation,
receive, via the user interface, a user indicia selection,
commence a selected document processing operation corresponding to the selected indicia,
send a resource request and a token associated with the indicia selection to a resource server via the network interface,
receive, via the network interface, a response from the resource server corresponding to the resource request and the token associated with the selected indicia,
complete the selected document processing operation in accordance with the response received from the resource server.

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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a networked computer to execute a control method, the control method comprising:

receiving login information from an associated user via a user interface into a system including a processor and associated memory,
redirecting received login information to an authorization sever via a network interface,
receiving, via the network interface, one or more data tokens corresponding to the user from the authorization server responsive to the redirected login information,
storing each received data token in the memory,
showing indicia on a user interface display corresponding a user selectable application for each received data token, wherein each application is associated with a document processing operation,
receiving, via the user interface, a user indicia selection,
commencing a selected document processing operation corresponding to the selected indicia,
sending a resource request and a token associated with the selected document processing operation to a resource server via the network interface,
receiving, via the network interface, a response from the resource server corresponding to the resource request and the token associated with the selected indicia, and
completing the selected document processing operation in accordance with the response received from the resource server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for single sign on across multiple applications with license enablement

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System and method for single sign on across multiple applications with license enablement

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