Zero sign-on authentication
AssigneeCable Television Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsSeetharama R. Durbha, Oscar Marcia, Stuart Hoggan, Simon Krauss
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Abstract
An authenticating system and process for authenticating user devices to a access a service where access to certain portions of the service may be limited according to a access point or other device used by a user device to facilitate interfacing a user with the service. The authentication may be achieved without directly assessing a trustworthiness of the user devices, and optionally, without requiring a user thereof to complete a sign-on operation.
Claims18
A method of automatically authenticating an electronic device for one or more media services associated with a service provider, the electronic device being in operable communication with an access point, comprising the steps of:
- receiving, by way of the access point, a media request from the electronic device for access to at least one media service of the one or more media services;
- identifying, from the media request, a location of the access point;
- determining a level of trust for at least one of the access point and the electronic device at the identified location;
- automatically enabling the electronic device to access a first access tier of services from the service provider based on the determined level of trust;
- receiving a nonce signed by the electronic device from signaling transmitted through the access point;
- verifying a signature of the electronic device from the received signed nonce;
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- determining the level of trust for the electronic device as a function of information associated with the nonce.
The method of 1, wherein the step of determining the level of trust is calculated as a function of information included within a credential transmitted from the electronic device.
A system for of automatically authenticating an electronic device for one or more media services associated with a service provider, the electronic device being in operable communication with an access point, comprising:
- a processor in operable communication with the service provider;
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- a memory device configured to store computer executable instructions therein, which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- receive, by way of the access point, a media request from the electronic device for access to at least one media service of the one or more media services;
- identify, from the media request, a location of the access point;
- determine a level of trust for at least one of the access point and the electronic device at the identified location;
- automatically enable the electronic device to access a first access tier of services from the service provider based on the determined level of trust;
- receive a nonce signed by the electronic device from signaling transmitted through the access point;
- verify a signature of the electronic device from the received signed nonce;
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- determine the level of trust for the electronic device as a function of information associated with the nonce.
The system of 12, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to determine the level of trust as a function of information included within a credential transmitted from the electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.