US 12,231,418 B2
Authentication using session-less login
Joel Specht, Folsom, CA (US); and Carl Reuben Gould, Folsom, CA (US)
Assigned to Inductive Automation, LLC, Folsom, CA (US)
Filed by Inductive Automation, LLC, Folsom, CA (US)
Filed on May 7, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/657,613.
Application 18/657,613 is a continuation of application No. 18/593,566, filed on Mar. 1, 2024, granted, now 12,120,102.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/487,616, filed on Mar. 1, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0297875 A1, Sep. 5, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/08 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
establishing, by an agent computer system, an application session with an application server;
establishing, by the agent computer system, a user session with the application server by authenticating a first user of the agent computer system using an identity provider system;
detecting, by the agent computer system, that the application session requires a second user's authentication;
while maintaining the user session with the application server, requesting, by the agent computer system, a session-less authentication of the second user using the identity provider system, wherein the identity provider system is configured to ignore the user session in response to the request;
receiving, by the agent computer system, a confirmation of the authentication of the second user from the identity provider system without establishing a second user session with the application server associated with the second user; and
performing, by the agent computer system, the requested action in response to receiving the confirmation of the authentication of the second user.