Patents by Inventor Tajen R. Wu

Tajen R. Wu 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).

  • Pluggable account management interface with unified login and logout and multiple user authentication services
    Patent number: 5774551
    Abstract: A system and method provide transparent access from any system entry service to multiple account management services, and particularly to multiple authentication services on a computer system, supporting unified login and logout. Transparency between system entry services and account management services, including authentication, password, account, and session services, is provided by an application programming interface and a configuration file. The configuration file stores associations between system entry services, and selected account management services, and allows an individual system entry service to be associated with multiple different ones of a given type of account management service, such as authentication services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tajen R. Wu, William A. Shannon, Paul Fronberg, Donald R. Stephenson, Vipin Samar