US 2014/0197232 A1 · System and Method for Establishing a Communication Session

Abstract

A server in a communications network establishes a communication channel between a user's device and another device having a display. Particularly, the server generates a Quick Response (QR) code utilizing one or more parameters, and sends it to a device for display to a user. Using his or her device, the user captures an image of the displayed QR code and extracts the parameters using an image analysis technique. The device then sends the extracted parameters back to the server, which then utilizes them to authenticate the user and establish the communications session.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A method for establishing a communications session between first and second devices, the method performed at a network server and comprising:

generating a coded image for display at a first device connected to the network server, the coded image including embedded data used to authenticate a second device at the network server;
sending the coded image to the first device for display to the second device;
receiving, from the second device, the embedded data extracted from the displayed coded image by the second device;
and
authenticating the second device to perform one or more protected functions based on the received embedded data.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/008,508Filed 30 Mar 2012

Priority

31 Mar 2011

Published

17 Jul 2014

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H04L 63/08
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for authentication of entities
G06F 21/313
User authentication: using a call-back technique via a telephone network
G06Q 20/3276
Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices: using a pictured code, e.g. barcode or QR-code, being read by the M-device
H04L 63/18
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: using different networks or channels, e.g. using out of band channels

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