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Liquid Transfer of User Identity

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Current Trends in Web Engineering (ICWE 2017)

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Most consumers own more than one device for accessing content from the Web. In this world Liquid Software allows users to switch the device and effortlessly continue tasks in the new device. This paper addresses on the needs and methods for transferring a user session and user information from one device to another. The identity should follow the moving application seamlessly instead of requiring repeated entering of credentials in each device. Such solution would make services that require authentication to work in a liquid fashion. The paper describes our on-going work on investigating how liquid transfer of user identity can be added to various ways of handing the user authentication.

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    https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2WebServer, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/and-expiration-extension.

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    http://www.ip2location.com/.

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    freegeoip.net.

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    http://www.qrcode.com/en/about/version.html.

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    Sivamani Thangavel & Kari Systä

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Thangavel, S., Systä, K. (2018). Liquid Transfer of User Identity. In: Garrigós, I., Wimmer, M. (eds) Current Trends in Web Engineering. ICWE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74433-9_8

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