Method for managing interaction between information appliances and appliance services
AssigneeGateway, Inc.
InventorAllan Havemose
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Abstract
The present invention provides a universal information appliance management system capable of executing transactions, including financial transactions, across a distributed network. Additionally, the present invention provides central authentication of objects of the system such that one object may verify the validity of any other object.
Claims8
A method for managing the inter action between a plurality of information appliances and a plurality of appliance services, said information appliances being removably connected to said appliance services through a network, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving, by an appliance service, an authentication interface dynamic base object including an appliance service request from an information appliance having an appliance type and an appliance identifier, said appliance service being a content provider;
- verifying the authentication interface dynamic base object through a central authenticator by testing said request to determine whether said information appliance is registered, testing said request to determine whether said appliance identifier is authorized to receive a service from said appliance service and authorizing services for said information appliance from said appliance service;
- wherein the central authenticator is used to at least one of certify that an account has sufficient funds or confirm an identity of a user;
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- wherein the authentication interface dynamic base object includes a transaction dynamic base object which is capable of being utilized to at least one of provide to or derive from a user's account financial data, the user's account residing on the central authenticator.
A method for managing the interaction between a plurality of information appliances and a plurality of appliance services, said information appliances being removably connected to said appliance services through a network, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving an authentication interface dynamic base object transmitted from a user information appliance by a content provider information appliance;
- verifying the authentication interface dynamic base object through a central authenticator, wherein the authentication interface dynamic base object passes verification to an authentication implementation dynamic base object, the authentication implementation dynamic base object including user authentication information;
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- wherein the central authenticator is used to at least one of certify that an account has sufficient funds or confirm an identify of a user;
- wherein the authentication interface dynamic base object includes a transaction dynamic base object;
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- wherein the transaction dynamic base object is capable of being utilized to at least one of provide to or derive from a user's account financial data, the user's account residing on the central authenticator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.