Nicholas A White

US Patent:

8276190, Sep 25, 2012

Filed:

Aug 19, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/194492

Inventors:

Kevin Kai-Wei Chang - Azusa CA, US
Nicholas Austin White - Marina del Rey CA, US

Assignee:

Google Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

H04L 29/06

US Classification:

726 3, 713176, 726 22

Abstract:

A user using a browser having stored authentication information for a web service in a first domain is authenticated to a web service in a second domain. The browser is provided with computer program instructions causing the browser to transparently provide the stored authentication information to the service in the first domain, receive cross-domain authentication credentials from the service in the first domain, and provide the cross-domain authentication credentials to the service in the second domain. The service in the second domain validates the cross-domain authentication credentials. If the credentials validate, the service in the second domain transparently provides the user with authenticated access.