US6484263B1
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Security profile for web browser
Assignee: GlobalFoundries Inc
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Filing: 1999-01-28
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Granted: 2002-11-19
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Expires: 2019-01-28
Abstract
Abstract Disclosed is a system and method for accessing password-protected Web sites through Web browsers without manually supplying username and password by users. A browser maintains, for each user, one user security profile which stores the URLs and the corresponding login username and password. When the browser receives a username-password challenge from a Web server, instead of immediately prompting the user for such information, the browser first searches the user security profile for the URL the challenge is received from. If a match is found, the browser sends the challenging Web server the username and password that is associated with the matched URL. Thus the user does not have to manually supply the username and password once the triple of (URL, username, password) is stored in the user security profile. This feature is especially valuable for users of voice browsers and phone browsers.
Inventors
- 👤 Te-Kai Liu
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-07 10:34
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L63/00; H04L63/08; H04L63/083; G; G06; G06F; G06F21/00; G06F21/30; G06F21/31; G06F21/41; H04L63/10; H04L63/104
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
92 words
A computer system having one or more memories, one or more central processing units and one or more network interfaces, the computer system further comprising: a browser; a security profile having a plurality of records, each record having a URL, a user name associated with the URL, and a password associated with the user name; and a browser process that identifies a target URL for one or more password-protected web sites that a user desires to access, associating the target URL with one or more of the URLs in the security profile.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
92 words
A computer system having one or more memories, one or more central processing units and one or more network interfaces, the computer system further comprising: a browser; a security profile having a plurality of records, each record having a URL, a user name associated with the URL, and a password associated with the user name; and a browser process that identifies a target URL for one or more password-protected web sites that a user desires to access, associating the target URL with one or more of the URLs in the security profile.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
A system, as in claim 1 , where the browser process further provides the respective associated user name and password to the password-protected web site when the password-protected web site challenges the browser.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
26 words
A system, as in claim 2 , where the browser fails to find a matched URL and prompts the user to manually supply username and password.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
24 words
A system, as in claim 1 , where the browser is any computer process which uses the HyperText Transfer Protocol to access Web sites.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
14 words
A system, as in claim 1 , where the browser is a HTTP client.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
A system, as in claim 5 , where the HTTP client does not have a graphical user interface and includes any one or more of the following: a phone browser and a voice browser.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
72 words
A computer browser process comprising the steps of: accessing a password-protected web site with a target URL; matching the target URL with a record in a security profile with a plurality of records, each record having a URL, a user name associated with the URL, and a password associated with the user name; and providing the user name and password to the password-protected web site when password-protected web site challenges the browser.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
72 words
A computer browser process comprising the steps of: accessing a password-protected web site with a target URL; matching the target URL with a record in a security profile with a plurality of records, each record having a URL, a user name associated with the URL, and a password associated with the user name; and providing the user name and password to the password-protected web site when password-protected web site challenges the browser.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
74 words
A computer browser program product which performs the steps of: accessing a password-protected web site with a target URL; matching the target URL with a record in a security profile with a plurality of records, each record having a URL, a user name associated with the URL, and a password associated with the user name; and providing the user name and password to the password-protected web site when password-protected web site challenges the browser.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
74 words
A computer browser program product which performs the steps of: accessing a password-protected web site with a target URL; matching the target URL with a record in a security profile with a plurality of records, each record having a URL, a user name associated with the URL, and a password associated with the user name; and providing the user name and password to the password-protected web site when password-protected web site challenges the browser.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
74 words
A computer browser comprising: means for accessing a password-protected web site with a target URL; means for matching the target URL with a record in a security profile with a plurality of records, each record having a URL, a user name associated with the URL, and a password associated with the user name; and means for providing the user name and password to the password-protected web site when password-protected web site challenges the browser.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
74 words
A computer browser comprising: means for accessing a password-protected web site with a target URL; means for matching the target URL with a record in a security profile with a plurality of records, each record having a URL, a user name associated with the URL, and a password associated with the user name; and means for providing the user name and password to the password-protected web site when password-protected web site challenges the browser.
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