Patents by Inventor Patricia A. Stange

Patricia A. Stange 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).

  • System and method for accessing enterprise-wide resources by presenting to the resource a temporary credential
    Patent number: 6055637
    Abstract: A resource access control system and method (50) for a corporate enterprise includes a security administrator (60, 62) in communication with a plurality of users (90), each of the users (90) having an assigned role and a unique user identifier. A temporary credential token (52) is generated correlative to the assigned role of the user by the security administrator (62) as the user logs on by entering the assigned unique user identifier and indicates a desire to access a resource (56). The temporary credential token (52) is communicated to the resource (56) and any subsequent resources (56) to allow access by the user (90), and deleted as the user (90) terminates the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Electronic Data Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome D. Hudson, Jean-Paul Champagne, Mary A. Galindo, Cynthia M. K. Hickerson, Donna R. Hickman, Robert P. Lockhart, Nancy B. Saddler, Patricia A. Stange