Techniques for environment single sign on
AssigneeNovell, Inc.
InventorsNathaniel Kranendonk, Stephen R Carter
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Abstract
Techniques for environment single sign on are provided. Multiple identifiers for devices are associated as a single environment. A principal can be authenticated via any of the devices once to access protected resources and once authenticated the principal can access the protected resources from the other devices without re-authenticating.
Claims20
A method residing in non-transitory a computer-readable storage medium as executable instructions that are executed by a processor to perform the method, comprising:
- authenticating, via the processor, a principal for access to a protected resource;
- establishing, via the processor, a first session for the first device and a second session for a second device that is also accessible to the principal;
- and
- allowing, via the processor, the principal to access the protected resource and one or more other protected resources, without re-authenticating to the second device.
A method residing in non-transitory a computer-readable storage medium as executable instructions that are executed by a processor to perform the method, comprising:
- associating, by the processor, a processing environment comprising a first device and a second device;
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- allowing, by the processor, allowing single sign-on within the processing environment, the processing environment including protected resources associated with the first device and the second device.
A multiprocessor-implemented system, comprising:
- a device having memory and a processor;
- and
- a service implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and to execute on the device;
- wherein the service is configured to form a single environment from multiple other devices and to permit single sign-on to multiple resources of the single environment to occur once.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.