US Patent 9935788 Pluggable authentication and authorization

In particular embodiments, a client device may established a first connection to a ticket server of a gateway, wherein the gateway couples the client device to a first computing device, retrieve a permission vector from the ticket server though the first connection, wherein the retrieved permission vector contains at least one or more tickets to authenticate and authorize the client device access to at least the gateway and the first computing device, and establish a second connection to the first computing device based at least on the retrieved tickets