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Use Case 1: Single Sign-on Based on Account Linking

In Use Case 1, smcompany.com contracts with a partner company, ahealthco.com to manage employee health benefits.

An employee of smcompany.com authenticates at an employee portal at his company’s site, www.smcompany.com and clicks a link to view her health benefits at ahealthco.com. The employee is taken to ahealthco.com's web site and is presented with her health benefit information without having to sign on to ahealthco.com’s Web site.

The following illustration shows this use case.

The company, ahealthco.com, maintains all health-related information for employees at smcompany.com. To do this, ahealthco.com maintains user identities for every employee of smcompany.com. When an employee of smcompany.com accesses ahealthco.com, an identifier for the employee is passed from smcompany.com to ahealthco.com in a secure manner. This identifier allows ahealthco.com to determine who the user is and the level of access to allow for that user.

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Solution 1: SSO Based on Account Linking