WEB TICKET BASED UPON A SYMMETRIC KEY FOR AUTHENTICATING A CLIENT OF A UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATION

摘要

Using a small size web ticket in connection with authenticating a user of a unified communications system. The web ticket is generated through use of a symmetric key and is less than two hundred bytes in size. A ticket issuer executing on a first computing device generates the web ticket responsive to receiving authentication data from a client computing device and transmits the web ticket to such client computing device. The client computing device includes the web ticket in requests for data transmitted to a second server computing device that is in communication with the ticket issuer. The second server computing device includes a valida tor that validates the web ticket using the symmetric key which is shared between the first server and the second server.