Information security – Access control or authentication – Network
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-21
2007-08-21
Zia, Syed A. (Department: 2131)
Information security
Access control or authentication
Network
C713S154000, C713S155000, C713S157000, C713S175000, C726S005000, C726S010000, C726S021000, C709S225000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10086104
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for distributed authentication service is disclosed, which prevents any single participant from monitoring the logon rates of other participants is disclosed. In particular, there is no single central list that is consulted to identify where the authentication should be performed. Rather, the systems keys on the domain portion of the global user ID. The client portion parses the entered ID and re-directs the submission to the appropriate authentication service. Rather than consulting a global look-up table, the domain name is pre-pended to a central host domain and DNS is consulted to find the location of the underlying authentication servers. The DNS look-up is distributed and cached and, as a result, the look-up cannot be centrally monitored.
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Roskind Jim
Toomey Chris
AOL LLC
Glenn Michael A.
Glenn Patent Group
Zia Syed A.
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