Apparatus and method for online service access control
AssigneeNCSOFT Corporation
InventorTaekhun Kim
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for online service access control are provided. The method for online service access control according to one embodiment includes determining a device having control right for an online service from among a plurality of user devices accessing a user's account for the online service, providing data generated, by a server, for the online service to the plurality of user devices, and providing data generated, by the device having control right, for the online service to the server.
Claims20
A method for online service access control, the method being performed by an access control apparatus, the method comprising:
- determining, by the access control apparatus, a device having control right for an online service from among a plurality of user devices that are concurrently logged into a same user account through a login procedure using authentication information of the same user account;
- providing, by the access control apparatus, first data generated, by a server providing the online service, for the online service to each of the plurality of user devices;
- and
- providing, by the access control apparatus and while the plurality of user devices are concurrently logged into the same user account through the login procedure using the authentication information of the same user account, second data generated by the device having control right for the online service to the server, such that only data generated by the device having control right is provided to the server and data for the online service generated by the remaining devices of the plurality of user devices not having control right is not provided to the server.
An apparatus for online service access control, comprising:
- one or more communication interfaces;
- a memory storing one or more commands;
- and
- one or more processors configured to execute the one or more commands,
- wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
- determine a device having control right for an online service from among a plurality of user devices that are concurrently logged into a same user account through a login procedure using authentication information of the same user account;
- provide first data generated, by a server providing the online service, for the online service to each of the plurality of user devices through the one or more communication interfaces;
- provide, while the plurality of user devices are concurrently logged into the same user account through the login procedure using the authentication information of the same user account, second data generated, by the device having control right for the online service to the server through the one or more communication interfaces, such that only data generated by the device having control right is provided to the server and data for the online service generated by the remaining devices of the plurality of user devices not having control right is not provided to the server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.