Identification and/or authentication method

摘要

A computer-implemented authentication method allows a user having a personal electronic device (PED) to login to a recipient system. The user establishes an account on an authentication server, provides personal information to the PED, and uniquely identifies the user's PED. The authentication method establishes a unique token ID for the user. Upon interacting with the recipient system, the user is prompted for his token ID. The recipient system communicates with the authentication server to request the user's information. The authentication server sends an authentication request to the user's PED, which prompts the user for a decision to proceed or not. The user, if deciding to proceed with authentication, selects a subset of the user's personal information that is then sent to the recipient system by the PED, the recipient system authenticating the user thereby.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented authentication method for allowing a user having a personal electronic device to register and/or login to a recipient system, the method comprising the steps:
a) providing an authentication server in communication on a network with the personal electronic device and the recipient system; b) establishing an account for the user on the authentication server by uniquely identifying the user's personal electronic device in the authentication system and assigning, by the authentication server, a token ID to the user, the token ID being based on the unique identification of the user's personal electronic device; c) storing personal information of the user on a memory of the personal electronic device, the personal information including at least one of name, address, credit card number, phone number, or email address; d) the recipient system prompting the user for his unique token ID; e) the recipient system receiving the user's token ID entered by the user and sending the entered user's token ID to the authentication; f) the authentication server sending an authentication request to the user's personal electronic device which prompts the user for a decision to proceed with authentication at the recipient system or not; g) the user if deciding to proceed with authentication authorizing the personal electronic device to send the personal information to the recipient system; h) the personal electronic device retrieving the personal information and sending the personal information directly to the recipient system; and i) the recipient system receiving the personal information directly from the personal electronic device and identifying the user thereby, the user subsequently being registered and logged into the recipient system.