Patent attributes
The present disclosure describes systems and methods of an authentication framework to implement varying authentication schemes in a configurable and extendable manner. This authentication framework provides a level of abstraction in which requirements for credential gathering and authentication workflow are independent from the agents or authentication implementation that does the credential gathering and authentication workflow. A higher level of abstraction and a more comprehensive authentication framework allows handling the associated authentication transactions of complex authentication schemes without requiring any specific understanding of their internals. For example, the requirements to gather certain credentials for a particular authentication scheme may be configured and maintained separately from the client-side authentication agent that gathers the credentials. The flexible, configurable and extendable authentication framework supports a wide variety of authentication scheme and supports third party, proprietary and customized authentication schemes.
