Multiple user authentication for online console-based gaming
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1. A computer-readable storage medium for a game console comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, direct the game console to:
- create multiple validated user identities (U1, H1), (U2, H2), . . . , (UU, HU) composed of the multiple user identities U1, U2, . . . , UU and associated values H1, H2, . . . , HU derived from the user'"'"'s key;
form a request containing a game console identity X, a game title identity G, the multiple user identities, and an identity A of an online service, as follows;
Request=[X,G,A,(U1,H1), . . . , (UU,HU)];
submit the request to a ticket issuing entity over a network; and
prove with the ticket the game console identity and the multiple user identities playing at the game console, wherein the ticket issuing entity simultaneously authenticates each of the identities contained in the request.
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Abstract
A console-based multi-user authentication process allows multiple users of a game console to be authenticated together in a single request/reply exchange with an authentication entity. The results of which is the possession of a single ticket that can be used to prove authenticity of multiple authentication principals to one or more online services. Also described is a handshake process that can be used to initially establish an authentication account for each game console, in which the account creation server can trust that a genuine game console is making the request.
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1. A computer-readable storage medium for a game console comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, direct the game console to:
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create multiple validated user identities (U1, H1), (U2, H2), . . . , (UU, HU) composed of the multiple user identities U1, U2, . . . , UU and associated values H1, H2, . . . , HU derived from the user'"'"'s key; form a request containing a game console identity X, a game title identity G, the multiple user identities, and an identity A of an online service, as follows;
Request=[X,G,A,(U1,H1), . . . , (UU,HU)];submit the request to a ticket issuing entity over a network; and prove with the ticket the game console identity and the multiple user identities playing at the game console, wherein the ticket issuing entity simultaneously authenticates each of the identities contained in the request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method comprising computer-executable stored instructions executed on a central processing unit of a game console, the method comprising:
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creating multiple validated user identities (U1, H1), (U2, H2), . . . , (UU, HU) composed of the multiple user identities U1, U2, . . . , UU and associated values H1, H2, . . . , HU derived from the user'"'"'s key; forming a request containing a game console identity X, a game title identity G, the multiple user identities, and an identity A of an online service, as follows;
Request=[X,G,A,(U1,H1), . . . , (UU,HU)];submitting the request to a ticket issuing entity over a network; and proving the game console and the multiple user identities playing at the game console with the ticket, wherein the ticket issuing entity simultaneously authenticates each of the identities contained in the request. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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