SECURELY DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF A USER

摘要

Methods for securely and precisely determining the location of a user are described. The methods involve a situated device dock which is associated with an application and has a known physical location. The dock comprises a sensor to detect a user portable device in proximity to the dock and a module for communicating a session key to a proximate user portable device. The session key is known to a server and enables the user portable device to verify to the server that it is proximate to the device dock and therefore can be associated with the known physical location of the device dock. Based on the known location of the user portable device, functionality within an application or web application running on the device is enabled or disabled.

主权项

1. A system for securely determining a location of a user, the system comprising:
a situated device dock associated with an application, the situated device dock comprising:
a proximity sensor arranged to detect a user portable device in proximity to the situated device dock; anda communication module arranged to communicate a session key to a user portable device in proximity to the situated device dock, the session key enabling authentication between the user portable device and the application.