Method and system for enhanced security using location based wireless authentication
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorIan CLOUGH
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Abstract
A method and system for enhancing security using location-based wireless authentication for a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: sending from the mobile device to a base station a message, the message having a unique identifier associated with the mobile device; appending, at the base station, a location identifier to said message; sending the message to a recipient; and authenticating the message at the recipient, said authenticating step confirming that the location identifier appended at the base station corresponds with an expected location for the message.
Claims9
An improved base station for use in authentication of a transaction, the base station forming part of a wireless network and communicating with at least one mobile device and with a network, the base station improvements comprising:
- means to receive a transaction message from the at least one mobile device, the transaction message being a request to complete a financial transaction and including a merchant identifier;
- means to append to the transaction message a location identifier;
- a forwarding means to forward the transaction message with the location identifier to a recipient device, system or apparatus,
- wherein the authentication uses the location identifier to ensure the transaction is valid.
A method of transaction authentication comprising the steps of:
- sending a transaction message to a recipient, the transaction message being a request to complete a financial transaction and including a merchant identifier, and
- appending, to the transaction message, a location identifier,
- wherein said location identifier can be used by said recipient to authenticate that the transaction is occurring in an expected location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.