Mobile user authentication in connection with access to mobile services
OwnerStefan Aberg, Timo Pakkalainventors
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and a system for enabling a server (120) on a packet switched network (130) to authenticate a user of a wireless terminal (100) prior to granting the terminal access to a service administrated by the server. According to the invention, the wireless terminal (100) initiates transmission of a first set of user identification parameters to a server (120) over a first communication path (140), after which the terminal (100) transmits a second set of user identification parameters to the server (120) over a second communication path (150). The server (120) then bases authentication of the wireless terminal (100) on a match between the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters.
Claims21
A method for enabling a server on a packet switched network to authenticate a user of a wireless terminal prior to granting the terminal access to a service administrated by the server, the method including:
- initiating, from the wireless terminal, transmission of a first set of user identification parameters to the server over a first communication path;
- transmitting, from the wireless terminal, a second set of user identification parameters to the server over a second communication path;
- obtaining access, at the wireless terminal over the second communication path, to the service in dependence on an authentication based on a match between the first set of user identification parameters and the second set of user identification parameters.
A system for enabling a server on a packet switched network to authenticate a user of a wireless terminal prior to granting the terminal access to a service administrated by the server, the system including:
- first server means for receiving information over a first communication path;
- second server means for receiving information over a second communication path;
- the wireless terminal being adapted to initiate transmission of a first set of user identification parameters to the server over the first communication path and to transmit a second set of user identification parameters to the server over the second communication path;
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- the server being adapted to base authentication of the wireless terminal on a match between the first set of user identification parameters and the second set of user identification parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.