Secure user action request indicator

• US 7,124,439 B1
• Filed: 03/15/2000
• Issued: 10/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Lukkaroinen, Mikko, Inget, Virve
• Primary Examiner(s): Louis-Jacques, Jacques H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nalven, Andrew L.
• Application Number:
  US09/525,806
• Time in Patent Office: 2,407 Days
• Field of Search: 713/202, 713/201, 713/166, 726/23
• US Class Current: 726/23
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/106 Packet or message integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/122 Counter-measures against attacks; Protection against rogue devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/128 Anti-malware arrangements, e.g. protection against SMS fraud or mobile malware

Abstract

A mobile communications device is adapted to use applications resident on a remote network server. The display of the mobile device is divided into static and dynamic display zones. Inquiries originating externally from the mobile device are identified and restrictively routed only to the dynamic display. Internally generated inquiries trigger a indicator symbol within the static display. In this manner bogus requests for confidential identifiers may be avoided.

Claims

1. In a mobile communications device adapted to allow a user to communicate interactively with a remote network server, a system, within said mobile device, for indicating the authenticity of inquiries for confidential identity codes comprising:

a control processor within said mobile device for operating said mobile device, said processor adapted to identify said inquiries for confidential identity codes as externally generated or internally generated;

a display within said mobile device for presenting information to the user, said display divided into first and second discrete display zones; and

routing means within said mobile device constructed to send externally generated information only to said first display zone;

wherein said control processor generates an indication symbol in said second display zone when the inquiry is internally generated to indicate to the user that said inquiry is authentic.

2. In a mobile communications device adapted to allow a user to communicate interactively with a remote network server, a system within said mobile device for indicating the authenticity of inquiries for confidential identity codes, as described in claim 1, wherein the first and second display zones are dynamic and static displays respectively.

3. In a mobile communications device adapted to communicate interactively with a remote network server, said mobile device having a control processor, a user interface and a display, a method for indicating the authenticity of inquiries for confidential identity codes comprising:

internally within the mobile communications device, identifying said inquiries for confidential identity codes as externally generated or internally generated;

internally within the mobile communications device, dividing said display into first and second discrete display zones;

internally within the mobile communications device, routing externally generated inquiries only to said first display zone; and

internally within the mobile communications device, generating an indication symbol in said second display zone when the inquiry is internally generated, to indicate to the user that said inquiry is authentic.

4. In a mobile communications device adapted to allow a user to communicate interactively with a remote network server, said mobile device having a control processor, a user interface and a display, a method for indicating the authenticity of inquiries for confidential identity codes, as described in claim 3 wherein the first and second display zones are dynamic and static displays respectively.