摘要 |
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems by which a client application program running on a mobile communications device can determine the telephone number associated with the mobile communications device and communicate the telephone number to a remote computing entity in a secure and verifiable fashion. In one embodiment of the present invention, a client application program running on a mobile communications device sends an SMS message to a remote server, allowing the remote server to determine the telephone number associated with the mobile communications device and return the determined telephone number to the client application program in a SMS response message. In another embodiment of the present invention, a client application program running on a mobile communications device can prove to a remote computing entity that the client application's program is running on a mobile communications device associated with a particular telephone number. The client application's program and remote computing entity exchange information in SMS messages, and the client application program finally transmits secret information obtained from the remote computing entity back to the remote server via WAP-based communications.
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