Symantec Assigned Patent
Computer readable storage media for selective proxification of applications
By Francis Pelletier | August 9, 2017 at 2:18 pmSymantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,699,169) developed by Andreu, Roger Casals, Los Gatos, CA, for a “computer readable storage media for selective proxification of applications and method and systems utilizing same.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods for selective proxification of applications are disclosed. One or more computer readable storage media may be encoded with instructions executable by one or more processing units of a computing system. The instructions encoded on the computer readable storage media may comprise authenticating a single sign-on access at a proxy server, receiving a request at the proxy server to access an application on an application server requiring authentication, accessing the application on the application server, authenticating a user to the application without additional authentication input from the user, and selectively providing a proxified session between the user and the application.“
The patent application was filed on March 14, 2013 (13/827,467).