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| 20110202987 | SERVICE ACCESS CONTROL - An arrangement for providing users with access to services is described. Access requests received from users are monitored by a gateway and, where appropriate, user credentials for a service that is being accessed are inserted by the gateway. The gateway monitors packets of data in order to check user credentials. The gateway is also able to modify packets of data to insert user credentials, if necessary. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110265169 | USER-DEPENDENT CONTENT DELIVERY - A gateway is provided between an application and a server. The gateway is used to modify content sent from the server to the application via the gateway. The modification may include adding, removing or modifying content. The modification process is user-dependent and an identity management system is used for identifying the user. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110289567 | SERVICE ACCESS CONTROL - A USB memory stick, or similar device, is provided having software installed thereon to enable a user to access restricted applications without a user device needing to handle user credential data. In use, the stick receives a request from the user device for access to an application, obtains first user identification information from the user device, uses the first user identification information and the application information to obtain user credentials from an identity management system, which user credentials are required by the application in order to grant the user access to the application, and provides the user credentials to the application without the user credentials needing to be provided to the user device. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289573 | AUTHENTICATION TO AN IDENTITY PROVIDER - An arrangement for authenticating a user at a service provider is described. The arrangement makes use of the fact that a user of a mobile communication device can be readily and securely identified by a telecommunications provider and re-uses that authentication to identify the same user when accessing the service provider from a different client. The client instructs the mobile communication device to contact an identity provider at the telecommunications provider and shared secrets are exchanged between the identity provider, mobile communication device and client to confirm that the same user is at the client and the mobile communication device. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120106399 | IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A local identity management module is described that is able to identify each of a plurality of user devices. The user devices communicate with the outside world via a network address translation device that converts an internal address of the user devices to a single internet protocol address, typically the internet protocol address of the network address translation device. An external identity management system can communicate with the local identity management module in order to identify which of said plurality of user devices made a particular request and, in some embodiments, to identify a user of said user device. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120110677 | SYSTEM FOR PROTECTING PERSONAL DATA - A method of providing data in response to a search request comprises the steps of a social networking website receiving the search request to provide a pseudonym associated with the real name; the social networking website determining that the search request is for a pseudonym which, within its database, is not associated with the real name; the social networking website referring the search request to a identity management server which contains an association between the pseudonym and the real name; the identity management server determining the pseudonym which is associated with the real name; and the identity management server providing an information item which is related to the pseudonym. | 05-03-2012 |
