ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,263, issued on June 17, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).
"Identity proxy and access gateway" was invented by James Howard Royal (Austin, Texas) and Samuel Douglas Rhea (Lisbon, Portugal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server transmits to a third-party application a request for a resource that is received from a client. The server receives an authentication request from the client device that has been generated by the third-party application. The server transmits an identity provider selection page to the client device that allows the client device to select an identity provider. The server causes the client device to...