Discovery of familiar claims providers

摘要

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to identity technology. In aspects, profile data is mined to determine claims providers with which a user may be familiar. These familiar claims providers are used in conjunction with claims providers that are allowed by a relying party to determine a candidate set of claims providers that are both familiar to the user and allowed by the relying party. This candidate set of claims providers is then displayed to a user so that the user may select one or more of the claims providers to obtain claims to provide to the relying party.

主权项

1. A method implemented at least in part by a computer, the method comprising:
establishing a privacy boundary to prevent natural identity information from being sent to a device outside of a user device with other profile data about a user being sent to the device outside of the user device; from a store of the user device, with no data that identifies a natural identity of the user being transmitted from the user device to the device outside of the user device, mining by the device outside of the user device, a predicted set of claims providers with which the user has established relationships from the other profile data about the user stored on the store of the user device; obtaining a specified set of claims providers that a relying party allows to provide claims to obtain access to a service provided by the relying party; using the predicted set of claims providers with which the user has established relationships and the specified set of claims providers to determine a candidate set of claims providers that are allowed by the relying party and included in the predicted set of claims providers with which the user has established relationships; and providing information regarding claims providers that are included in the candidate set to the user device.