Policy based signature authentication system and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9178707-B2
Application number	US-201414522262-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 23, 2014
Priority date	Jul 24, 2010
Publication date	Nov 3, 2015
Grant date	Nov 3, 2015

Abstract

In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing policy-based authentication is provided. In example embodiments, a request to access and sign a document is received from a device of an intended signer. A policy assigned to the intended signer is determined. Based on the policy, a determination is made whether an authentication mechanism is applicable to the intended signer. In response to the determining that the authentication mechanism is applicable to the intended signer, the intended user is required to perform the authentication mechanism. The intended user is provided access to view and sign the document based on the intended user satisfying the authentication mechanism.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, from a device of an intended signer, a request to access and sign a document;
determining a policy assigned to the intended signer;
accessing the policy assigned to the intended signer from one or more group policies, wherein the one or more group policies, that specify whether an intended authentication mechanism is applicable to one or more intended signers, are created based on received policy attributes;
based on the…

Assignees

• Adobe Systems Inc

Inventors

• Foygel Dan

Classifications

• H04L63/168

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F21/64

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L9/3226

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• H04L9/3247 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F21/40

  Physics · mapped topic