Patents by Inventor Jeremy Roger Mason

Jeremy Roger Mason has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Controlled access
    Patent number: 9473480
    Abstract: User access to a protected resource is controlled by: intercepting a request from a client browser (80) directed to a server (50); requesting user credentials from the client browser (80); processing user credentials received from the client browser (80) to authenticate the user (20); redirecting the client browser (80) to an authorization server (70) configured to issue a token credential; intercepting an authorization request from the browser (80) to the authorization server (70), and inserting into the authorization request an HTTP header variable indicating the authentication status of the user (20). The authorization server (70) is arranged to issue a token credential, which may be used by the user (20) to obtain a token for indicating to a server (50) hosting the protected resource authorization of the user (20) to access the protected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventor: Jeremy Roger Mason
  • CONTROLLED ACCESS
    Publication number: 20140282919
    Abstract: User access to a protected resource is controlled by: intercepting a request from a client browser (80) directed to a server (50); requesting user credentials from the client browser (80); processing user credentials received from the client browser (80) to authenticate the user (20); redirecting the client browser (80) to an authorization server (70) configured to issue a token credential; intercepting an authorization request from the browser (80) to the authorization server (70), and inserting into the authorization request an HTTP header variable indicating the authentication status of the user (20). The authorization server (70) is arranged to issue a token credential, which may be used by the user (20) to obtain a token for indicating to a server (50) hosting the protected resource authorization of the user (20) to access the protected resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventor: Jeremy Roger Mason