AUTHENTICATION METHOD FOR HOME INFORMATION APPLIANCE BY PORTABLE TELEPHONE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new authentication system which can specify a person with the same user-friendliness as a conventional home information appliance terminal while removing complicatedness for the authentication in a home information appliance terminal.

SOLUTION: The acquisition demand of a device ID is given from a portable telephone terminal to the home information appliance terminal. The device ID is transferred from the home information appliance terminal to the portable telephone terminal. A registered user ID and the device ID are transmitted from the portable telephone terminal to an authentication server. The authentication server performs a user authentication and a device authentication. When the authentication is succeeded, an address for specifying a relating device as the authentication information and a remote control program for the home information appliance terminal are transmitted. This address is transferred from the portable telephone terminal to the home information appliance terminal. The home information appliance terminal is connected to the relating device based on this address. The portable telephone terminal is used as the remote controller of the home information appliance terminal by using the remote control program.

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