Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100212000 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR USER AUTHENTICATION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH THE PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A method, and system, and computer program product for authenticating a user. A first server of a plurality of servers receives an access request from the user to access a federated computing environment that comprises multiple servers. After receiving the access request, the first server: receives input authentication information from the user, obtains a server address of a second server having an authentication policy that matches an authentication policy of the first server, transmits the input authentication information to the second server via the server address of the second server, receives from the second server a notification that the second server has successfully authorized the user, and permits the user to access the federated computing environment. | 08-19-2010 |
20130024769 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A DOCUMENT - An authentication certificate server receives an acquisition request of a confidential document which specifies a URI of a disclosable document obtained by removing a confidential element from the confidential document, the authentication certificate server transmits an acquisition request of the disclosable document to a public server and specifies a dictionary file based on the URI, and if the user has an access authority to the confidential element, the authentication certificate server transmits an acquisition request of a dictionary file to a confidential server. When the authentication certificate server receives the dictionary file from the confidential server and receives the disclosable document from the public server, the authentication certificate server restores the confidential document by returning the confidential element at a position in the disclosable document which position is specified by the dictionary file, and then transmits the confidential document thus restored to the terminal device. | 01-24-2013 |
20130305313 | AUTHENTICATION POLICY USAGE FOR AUTHENTICATING A USER - A method and system for authenticating a user. A first server of multiple servers generates an authentication policy table by inserting into the authentication policy table an authentication policy of each server and setting a relative priority of each server in the authentication policy table of the first server in order of decreasing number of users registered in an authentication system of each server. The authentication policy of each server is at least one rule of each server for authenticating users of a federated computing environment that includes the multiple servers. The first server receives an access request from the user to access the federated computing environment, receives input authentication information from the user, and determines from use of both the input authentication information and the at least one rule in the authentication policy table of the first server that the user is authorized to access the federated computing environment. | 11-14-2013 |
20140366083 | AUTHENTICATION POLICY USAGE FOR AUTHENTICATING A USER - A method and system for authenticating a user. A first server of at least two servers receive input authentication information from the user. The first server ascertains that the user is authorized to access a federated computing environment that comprises at least two servers, which includes the first server determining that the received input authentication information conforms to at least one rule of an authentication policy of a second server having a highest relative priority among servers of the at least two servers whose authentication policy's at least one rule, in an authentication policy table within the first server, is conformed to by the received input authentication information. | 12-11-2014 |