Authentication Token Translation for Seamless Application Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often experience inconvenience and inefficiency due to the need to re-authenticate when applications communicate with each other, disrupting the seamless user experience.
Innovation Solution
A system that translates authentication tokens from one application to another, allowing a single sign-on session bridge to facilitate interactions between distinct applications by converting and verifying authentication tokens, ensuring seamless communication without re-authentication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each application uses its own distinct user-authentication procedure, then application security is maintained, but user convenience deteriorates due to repeated re-authentication
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication-token translation system that mediates between the first application's authentication-token and the second application's authentication requirements. This intermediary component translates the authentication-token from the first application's format to the second application's format, allowing seamless authentication across applications without compromising security. The system verifies the translated authentication-token at the second application, ensuring security while eliminating repeated user authentication.
2Ease of operation
If authentication-tokens are translated between applications, then user convenience is improved by eliminating re-authentication, but system complexity increases due to token verification and translation mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal authentication-token translation system that can handle multiple authentication-token types and formats. The translation system is designed to work with different authentication mechanisms across various applications, providing a multi-functional solution that reduces overall system complexity by consolidating authentication handling into a single reusable component rather than requiring separate authentication logic in each application.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary authentication-token translation and verification before the user interacts with the second application. By pre-translating the authentication-token and verifying its validity in advance, the system eliminates the need for complex real-time authentication handling during user operations, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining security.
3Ease of operation
If authentication-tokens are translated and verified, then seamless application interaction is achieved, but processing time increases due to additional verification steps
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication-token translation and verification process is performed in advance, before the user initiates interaction with the second application. This preliminary action ensures that when the user does interact with the application, the authentication is already validated, eliminating delays during actual operations and creating a seamless user experience without noticeable processing time increases.
Data Source
AI summary
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that converts authentication-tokens to facilitate interactions between applications. During operation, the system receives a command-execution request from a first application, wherein the command-execution request specifies a command to execute on a second application. Subsequently, the system verifies a first authentication-token included with the command-execution request. Next, the system translates the first authentication-token into a form associated with the second application to produce a second authentication-token. The system then modifies the command-execution request by replacing the first authentication-token with the second-authentication-token to create a modified command-execution request. Then, the system sends the modified command-execution request to the second application.