Network service user authentication system
AssigneeOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorMasayoshi Oono
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Abstract
A network service user authentication system is provided to properly authenticate an authorized user in a transaction using a network. The system includes an includes an authentication part which preserves vital information for confirming a user and issues authentication information on the user by collating vital information supplied from outside through a network with the preserved vital information, and a payment part of a financial institution which, upon receiving the authentication information on the user issued by the authentication part, performs the payment admission of an amount to be paid to a provider server which provides a commodity or a service to the user through the network.
Claims7
A user authentication system comprising
- authentication means for storing vital information about a user, confirming identity of a user and issuing authentication information on the user by comparing vital information about the user supplied through a network with the stored vital information, and
- payment means which, upon receiving authentication information on the user issued by the authentication means, transmits the payment authorization for allowing the user to pay through the network to a provider which provides a network service to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.