Delegating authorizations

摘要

Delegation of authorizations from one device to another device is contemplated. The contemplated capabilities may enable an authenticated device to confer access tokens or other authoritative permissions to a non-authenticated or unsecured device, such as to enable the delegated device to access user content without the user having to enter a username and password or other identifying credentials thereto.

主权项

1. A method for delegating authorization to access user content kept at a plurality of service providers, the plurality of service providers associating the user content for a plurality of users with one or more of a plurality of access tokens such that each access token confers access to the user content of the associated user, the method comprising:
receiving the plurality of access tokens from the plurality of service providers after the plurality of service providers associates each of the plurality of access tokens with at least one of the plurality of users; receiving credentials from a control device, the credentials identifying a first user of the plurality of the users and being received as a function of the first user interacting with a first webpage displayed on the control device; selecting a first access token associated with the first user identified with the credentials from the plurality of access tokens received from the plurality of service providers; transmitting the first access token to the control device for subsequent transmission to a sink device; and transmitting a content request redirect to the sink device to prompt the sink device to transmit the first access token to a first service provider of the plurality of service providers, the first service provider verifying the first access token prior to responsively transmitting a first user content associated with the first access token to the sink device.