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US 2006/0050688 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for user authentication
AssigneeZoom Telephonics, Inc.
InventorsDean Panagopoulos, Douglas Raum, Tader Chang, William Vance
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Abstract
Authentication of a request for access to user specific information associated with a VoIP device is performed transparently, without any user identification or password required. A unique device identifier associated with the VoIP device is included in the request for access and used as an authentication token.
Claims20
A method for authenticating an IP request for access to user-specific information associated with a user's IP-capable VoIP device, comprising:
- receiving the IP request over an IP network, the IP request including a device identifier built into the VoIP device;
- and
- providing access to user-specific information in response to the IP request.
A VoIP on-line service comprising:
- user-specific information associated with at least one IP-capable VoIP device, with the information for each device associated with a device identifier, the device identifier built into the VoIP device and uniquely identifying the VoIP device;
- an authentication routine that allows access to user-specific information in response to an IP request to access that information received over an IP network where that IP request includes the device identifier associated with that information.
An on-line service comprising:
- means for receiving an IP request for access to user-specific information associated with a user's IP capable VoIP device, the IP request including a device identifier built into the VoIP device;
- and
- means for providing access to the user-specific information in response to the IP request.
A VoIP device comprising:
- circuitry that encodes an analog voice signal into a data packet for transmission over an IP network;
- a device identifier built into the VoIP device and uniquely identifying the VoIP device;
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- a routine that in response to receiving a command to access user-specific information associated with the VoIP device stored in a VoIP on-line service generates an IP request for access to that information for transmission over the IP network to the VoIP on-line service, the IP request including the device identifier.
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