Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Credential provider that encapsulates other credential providers
- Patent Title (中): 封装其他凭证提供商的凭证提供商
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Application No.: US13223064Application Date: 2011-08-31
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Publication No.: US08621584B2Publication Date: 2013-12-31
- Inventor: Philip M. Sturges
- Applicant: Philip M. Sturges
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: McAfee, Inc.
- Current Assignee: McAfee, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/04
- IPC: G06F7/04 ; G06F15/16 ; G06F17/30 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for encapsulating multiple Windows® based credential providers (CPs) within a single wrapping CP are described. In general, CP credentials and fields from two or more encapsulated or wrapped CPs may be enumerated and aggregated in such a way that the order of fields from each CP is preserved, fields that may be used only once are identified and appear only once, and fields are given a new unique field identifier. The union of all such fields (minus duplicates of any one-use-only fields) may be used to generate a mapping so that the wrapping CP and CP credential may “pass-through” calls from the operating system's logon interface to the correct wrapped CP and CP credential. The disclosed techniques may be used, for example, to provide single sign-on functionality where a plurality of sign-on credentials may be used (e.g., user name/password and smart card PIN).
Public/Granted literature
- US20130055365A1 Credential Provider That Encapsulates Other Credential Providers Public/Granted day:2013-02-28
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