Co-Activation For Authenticating A User's Registration
AssigneeViber Media S.A.R.L.
InventorsMichael Shmilov, Ido Iungelson
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Abstract
A method of authenticating a user's right to a mobile communication device, comprising: providing a service server comprising a database having registered service users entries, each the entries comprising an identification of the service user's mobile communication device, and an identification of the network operator used by the service user's mobile communication device; and requesting by the service server from a client application running on a first mobile communication device to send a SMS message to a client application miming on a second mobile communication device, the first and second mobile communication devices sharing the same network operator.
Claims7
A method of authenticating a user's right to a mobile communication device, comprising:
- providing a service server comprising a database having registered service users entries, each said entries comprising an identification of said service user's mobile communication device, and an identification of the network operator used by said service user's mobile communication device;
- and
- requesting by said service server from a client application running on a first mobile communication device to send a SMS message to a client application running on a second mobile communication device, said first and second mobile communication devices sharing the same network operator.
A system for authenticating a user's right to a mobile communication device, comprising:
- a service server running a server application, said service server comprising a database having registered service users entries, each said entries comprising an identification of said service user's mobile communication device and an identification of the network operator used by said service user's mobile communication device;
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- a plurality of user mobile communication devices running a client application, said client application communicating bi-directionally over the internet with said server application;
- said server application configured to send a request to said client application running on a first mobile communication device to send a SMS message to another client application running on a second mobile communication device, said first and second mobile communication devices sharing the same network operator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.