摘要 |
<p>An apparatus for the safe and certain identification of a user's identity in online transmissions of multimedia contents and the like, comprises a web-service platform (40) integrated with a streaming video player (45) and provided with multimedia contents (41), an authentication server (50), a personal computer (20), which serves for the user for using the multimedia contents (41) reserved to him/her, the computer (20) is in communication with the web-service platform (40) and the authentication server (50) through a telecommunication network (30), and a personal token (10), that is, a physical device required for the authentication, the token (10) is connected to the computer (20), and is provided with a device for the biometric recognition of the user; at pseudo-random time intervals, that is, not predetermined, but recurring within a certain maximum time, the web-service platform (40) emits a request (42) for the biometric recognition of the user, and subsequent to a valid biometric recognition, the token (10) outputs a password (21), only valid for a short time, which must be validated by the authentication server (50) for the user to continue using the educational contents (41).</p> |