REMOTE ACCESS VERIFICATION ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20090094164A1
• Filed: 09/22/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sg Gaming, Inc. (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Bally Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Im, Hyon John, Park, Wesley, Fontaine, Anthony L.
• Application Number:
  US12/235,559
• Publication Number:
  US 20090094164A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/67
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3674 involving authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/56 Financial cryptography, e.g. electronic payment or e-cash
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3213 using tickets or tokens, e.g. Kerberos network architectures or network communication protocols for entities authentication using tickets in a packet data network H04L63/0807
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3271 using challenge-response

Abstract

A system and method for authentication of the location of a user requesting remote access to an application server for processing a transaction requiring user location authentication. The system includes a client for enabling the user to request remote access to the application server, an access server for receiving and processing the request for access, an authenticating server for authenticating the user location responsive to receipt of the processed request from the access server, and a network for interconnecting the client, the access server, the authenticating server, and the application server. The client includes an identifier associated with the user'"'"'s location, and the authenticating server is adapted to authenticate the client location identifier. The client may include a dialer, including a number associated therewith, and the authenticating server may be adapted to identify the number associated with the dialer to authenticate the user'"'"'s location, and may further be adapted to identify the first number dialed to further authenticate the user location. The authenticating server may issue a security challenge to the client, and the client may interrogate the security challenge, generate a response, and transmit the response to the authenticating server.

Claims

1. A jurisdiction verification system, comprising:

an application server;

an authentication server; and

an access server, where the access server is disposed remote to a client device, and wherein the access server is adapted to communicate information between the client device and the authentication server;

the authentication server adapted to issue a challenge based on a request from the client device to access the application server and to receive a response based on the challenge, the response including information provided by a user at the client device, and wherein the information does not include GPS information, so as to determine a geographic location of the client device based on the response.

2. The jurisdiction verification system of claim 1, wherein the application server is adapted to accept the wager-based transactions, and wherein the authentication server is further adapted to authorize communication between the client device and the application server based on the response.

3. The jurisdiction verification system of claim 2, wherein the application server is adapted to accept the wager-based transactions, the response includes a geographic identifier, and the authentication server is further adapted to authorize communication between the client device and the application server if the geographic identifier is indicative of a predetermined geographic location.

4. The jurisdiction verification system of claim 2, wherein the predetermined geographic location is within a jurisdiction that allows wager-based transactions.

5. The jurisdiction verification system of claim 2, wherein the predetermined geographic location is within a jurisdiction that allows remote wager-based transactions.

6. The jurisdiction verification system of claim 2, wherein the predetermined geographic location is within a jurisdiction that allows wager-based transactions from the predetermined geographic location to another geographic location within another jurisdiction.

7. The jurisdiction verification system of claim 6, wherein the geographic identifier includes ANI information.

8. The jurisdiction verification system of claim 6, wherein the geographic identifier includes an IP address.