Assisted authentication using one-time-passcode
AssigneeHoip Telecom Limited
InventorAndrew James MARSH
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Abstract
An authentication method implemented on a server for authenticating a user device in a network comprising user devices and a server associated with a resource to be accessed. The server is configured to receive a request for access to a resource from a first user device and identify an entity to be authenticated from the request. A rule information set specifying how to form a one-time-passcode from a random code is defined and the random code is provided to a first device associated with the identified entity. A rule information set is provided to a second device associated with the identified entity and a one-time-passcode from the second device generated from the random code using at least one rule information set and received at the server.
Claims16
-15. (canceled)
Method for authentication of a user device in a network comprising user devices and a server associated with a resource to be accessed, the method comprising the following steps performed by the server
- receiving a request for access to a resource from a first user device,
- identifying an entity to be authenticated from the request,
- defining at least one rule information set specifying how to form a one-time-passcode from a random code,
- providing the random code to a first device associated with the identified entity,
- providing a rule information set to a second device associated with the identified entity, and
- receiving a one-time-passcode from the second device generated from the random code using at least one rule information set.
A server for authenticating a user device in a network comprising user devices and a resource to be accessed, the authentication server being configured to
- receive a request for access to a resource from a first user device,
- identify an entity to be authenticated from the request,
- define at least one rule information set specifying how to form a one-time-passcode from a random code,
- provide the random code to a first device associated with the identified entity,
- provide a rule information set to a second device associated with the identified entity, and
- receive a one-time-passcode from the second device generated from the random code using at least one rule information set.
A computer program product, embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, and encoding instructions for executing the method of
- receiving a request for access to a resource from a first user device,
- identifying an entity to be authenticated from the request,
- defining at least one rule information set specifying how to form a one-time-passcode from a random code,
- providing the random code to a first device associated with the identified entity,
- providing a rule information set to a second device associated with the identified entity, and
- receiving a one-time-passcode from the second device generated from the random code using at least one rule information set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.