AUTHENTICATING LINKED ACCOUNTS

Patent №

US 8,327,428

Granted

2012-12-04

Filed 2006

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11565611

Embodiments of authenticating linked accounts are presented herein. In an implementation, an authentication service provides functionality to form links between a plurality of user accounts. A client may then authenticate by providing credentials for one account in a group of linked accounts, and is permitted access to each account in the group of linked accounts based upon the linking. Thus, a single sign-in of a client to one account may permit the client to obtain services for service providers corresponding to multiple linked accounts, without an individual sign-in to each account.

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AI classification

Planning0.78
Natural language0.01
Vision0.01
AI hardware0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 189970921

Assignors

BAILEY, DAVID W., AYRES, LYNN C., HUANG, LIN, ROUSKOV,YORDAN I, GUO,WEIQIANG MICHAEL, BAILEY, DAVID W., HUANG, LIN, AYRES, LYNN C., GUO, WEI-QUIANG MICHAEL, ROUSKOV, YORDAN I

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