OPENID/LOCAL OPENID SECURITY

• US 20130227658A1
• Filed: 08/20/2012
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Leicher, Andreas, Schmidt, Andreas U., Shah, Yogendra C.
• Granted Patent: US 10,044,713 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/5
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint

Abstract

Identity management, user authentication, and/or user access to services on a network may be provided in a secure and/or trustworthy manner, as described herein. For example, trustworthy claims may be used to indicate security and/or trustworthiness of a user or user device on a network. Security and/or trustworthiness of a user or a user device on a network may also be established using OpenID and/or local OpenID, a secure channel between a service and the user device, and/or by including a network layer authentication challenge in an application layer authentication challenge on the user device for example.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

at a user device;

receiving at least one claim from the network, wherein the at least one claim is representative of a verifiable attribute of an identity associated with the user device;

storing the at least one claim on a secure local entity on the user device; and

creating at least one digital identity corresponding to a service, wherein the at least one digital identity is based on the at least one claim.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the claim is received from a network operator.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least one digital identity is associated with a trust the service has in the network operator.