US 7,454,615 B2Granted

Centralized authentication system

AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

InventorsDouglas R. O'Neil, Jose F. Rivera, William George Thomson

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Abstract

Centralized authentication systems are provided. A representative system, among others, includes a mobile authentication registration system, a content provider and a wireless internet server. The mobile authentication registration system resides on a content provider which is coupled to the internet, and is operable to receive a single identification number and password from a user independent of a platform the user is associated with, and determine that the identification number and password combination provided by the user is associated with a registered user. The content provider provides personalized internet content to any of a plurality of registered users on a plurality of platforms. The wireless internet server receives a connection request from a wireless device, sends an authentication request to the mobile authentication registration system, and provides a personalized internet content from the content provider to said at least one wireless device. Methods and other systems for multiple access portals are also provided.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A central authentication system, comprising:

a mobile authentication registration system coupled to the internet, operable to receive an authentication request for a first application service including an identification number and a password from a plurality of platforms, determine whether the identification number and password combination are a valid combination, and authenticate a user providing the valid combination as a registered user with respect to the first application service and a plurality of other application services for which the user had previously been provisioned by the mobile authentication registration system;
a content hub coupled to the mobile authentication registration system and the internet, the content hub being operable to store internet content available to a registered user;
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a translator coupled to the content hub and to the mobile authentication and registration system, the translator being operable to translate the internet content into at least a hypertext markup language and a wireless markup language and transmit it to the registered user, wherein the translator is further operable to translate the internet content into a short message service language, to translate the internet content into an extensible markup language, and to translate the internet content to send to a voice portal.

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