PRE-AUTHORIZING A CLIENT APPLICATION TO ACCESS A USER ACCOUNT ON A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

A content management system can tag a client installer with an information tag linking the client installer to a user account. The client installer can be configured to install the client-side application on the client device and pass the identification tag to the installed client-side application. The client-side application can transmit the identification tag to the content management system, which can use the identification tag to identify the linked user account and log the client-side application into the user account. The content management system can implement several verification measures such as limiting the number of times and when an identification tag can be used, as well as IP addresses that can use the identification tag. The content management system can also use data cached by the web-browser application to determine if the web-browser application was used to access the user account in the past.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receive an installation request to install a client-side application on a client device; generate an identification tag in response to the installation request being associated with a user account; transmit, to the client device, a client installer tagged with the identification tag; receive a pre-authorization request including the identification tag; and authorize the client-side application to access to the user account when the pre-authorization request is received within a predetermined time.