User collision detection and handling

摘要

Techniques for user collision detection and handling are described. According to various embodiments, a network resource provides content, services, and so forth, for consumption by authenticated users. To perform authentication tasks, the network resource leverages authentication services. Since a network resource may utilize multiple authentication services, collisions between users may occur. For instance, a user identifier for a user authenticated by one authentication service may match a user identifier for a different user authenticated by a different authentication service. Thus, techniques discussed herein are employed to detect such collisions and to handle the collisions such that users are differentiated from one another for authentication and resource access purposes.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and one or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, responsive to execution by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations including:
receiving an indication that a user is authenticated with an authentication service for access to a network resource, including a first authentication user identifier for the authenticated user;processing the first authentication user identifier to generate a first resource user identifier to be used to identify the authenticated user in the network resource;detecting based on the first resource user identifier and the first authentication user identifier for the authenticated user that a user collision occurs between the authenticated user and a different user of the network resource, said detecting including determining that the first resource user identifier for the authenticated user is the same as a second resource user identifier for the different user of the network resource, and detecting that the first authentication user identifier for the authenticated user is not the same as a second authentication user identifier for the different user, the second authentication user identifier being associated with an existing user profile for the network resource; andimplementing a collision handling procedure in response to said detecting to resolve the collision and enable the authenticated user to access the network resource, including:
matching the first authentication user identifier to a different existing user profile for the authenticated user in the network resource; andenabling the authenticated user to access the network resource according to one or more of permissions or restrictions specified for the different existing user profile.