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Method and apparatus for the secure identification of the owner of a portable device
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Inventors: Labaton, Isaac J.;
Assignee: Enco-Tone, Ltd. (Jerusalem, IL)
Primary Examiner: Lerner; Martin
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.
Methods for the secure identification of the owner of a portable device by a service provider, wherein the portable device may be in communication with the service provider over a voice line such as a telephone line or the like, and the portable device does not require a personal computer. Furthermore, the methods provide for one-way, non-repudiable, non-trackable identification of the owner of a portable device, and for the arbitration of a disputed transaction between the owner of a portable device and a service provider. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides methods for the secure identification of the owner of a portable device by a service provider, wherein the portable device may be in communication with the service provider over a voice line such as a telephone line, voice over IP, a data line or the like, and the portable device does not require a personal computer, card reader, or the like.
Furthermore, the methods of the present invention may provide for one-way, non-repudiable, non-trackable identification of the owner of a portable device and for the arbitration of a disputed transaction between the owner of a portable device and a service provider.
Referring now to FIGS.
1 and 2, in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, a small hand-held device 20 (portable device) may be issued to each entity 10 (i.
e.
, owner of the portable device), who desires to perform secure and certified Internet transactions over a voice line, including a regular telephone that may be a public telephone.
As a one time set-up procedure, a certificate (e.
g.
, X.
509) from an accepted certification authority 40, such as Verisign or similar authority, may be requested such that the third party certification service 50 will be able, upon the request of the service provider 30, to generate digital documents certified by the certification authority procedures (e.
g.
, PKCS#7) and specific keys, given to the person and wherein the respective X.
509 is also stored in the certification service's database.
Portable device 20 may require a personal identification number (PIN) to be entered, and the portable device may permit a limited number of consecutive wrong PINs (e.
g.
3 or 10) before the portable device autolocks.
Thus, only the legitimate owner has the capability to activate portable device 20.
Whenever an entity desires to perform a secure Internet transaction through a regular phone, the entity may use the portable device.
Since the portable device was previously associated with the entity at one of the third party certification service's databases, the portable device may be used to identify the authorized and legitimate device's owner in the following manner
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