Authentication system
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsKarmaveer R. KOONJBEARRY, Velamur Srinivasan SUDHARSAN
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Abstract
A user device is configured to request a secure web page from a web page server. The user device is further configured to receive a certificate from the web page server, the certificate including a serial number. The user device is further configured to receive different certificates from a plurality of certificate authentication servers. The user device is further configured to compare the different certificates to the certificate received from the web page server; determine that the certificate is valid; and send information to the web page server based on determining that the certificate is valid.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a user device to:
- request a secure web page from a web page server;
- receive a certificate from the web page server based on requesting the secure web page, the certificate including a serial number;
- send the serial number to a plurality of certificate authentication servers;
- receive different certificates from the plurality of certificate authentication servers based on sending the serial number to the plurality of certificate authentication servers;
- compare the different certificates to the certificate received from the web page server;
- determine that the certificate is valid when at least one of the different certificates, from the plurality of certificate authentication servers, matches the certificate received from the web page server;
- and
- send information to the web page server based on determining that the certificate is valid.
A method comprising:
- requesting, by a user device, a secure web page from a web page server;
- receiving, by the user device, a certificate from the web page server based on requesting the secure web page, the certificate including a serial number;
- sending, by the user device, the serial number to a plurality of certificate authentication servers;
- receiving, by the user device, different certificates from the plurality of certificate authentication servers based on sending the serial number to each of the plurality of certificate authentication servers;
- determining, by the user device, that the certificate is valid when at least one of the different certificates, from the plurality of certificate authentication servers, matches the certificate received from the web page server;
- and
- sending, by the user device, a message to the web page server based on the certificate being valid.
A computer-readable medium for storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
- a plurality of instructions, that when executed by one or more processors of a user device, cause the one or more processors to:
- request a secure web page from a web page server;
- receive a certificate from the web page server based on requesting the certificate,
- the certificate including first information;
- send the first information to a plurality of certificate authentication servers;
- receive different certificates from the plurality of certificate authentication servers based on sending the first information to the plurality of certificate authentication servers;
- compare the different certificates to the certificate received from the web page server;
- determine that the certificate is valid when at least one of the different certificates, from the plurality of certificate authentication servers, matches the certificate received from the web page server;
- and
- send information to the web page server based on determining that the certificate is valid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.