Call-number based customer identification method for personalizable internet portals

• US 7,898,989 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2001
• Issued: 03/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: E-Plus Mobilfunk GMBH & Co. KG (Telefonica SA)
• Original Assignee: E-Plus Mobilfunk GMBH & Co. KG (Telefonica SA)
• Inventors: Plabmann, Dieter, Ergezinger, Siegfried
• Primary Examiner(s): Hsu; Alpus H
• Application Number:
  US10/240,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20030149583A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,639 Days
• Field of Search: 370/260, 370/261, 370/338, 370/401, 370/259, 370/351, 370/466, 709/219, 709/203, 709/227, 379/88.17, 379/142.05, 379/201.01, 455/415, 455/445
• US Class Current: 370/259
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4012 Verifying personal identification numbers [PIN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/45 Network directories; Name-to-address mapping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0838 using one-time-passwords
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0853 using an additional device, e.g. smartcard, SIM or a different communication terminal cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving additional secure or trusted devices H04L9/3234
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0884 by delegation of authentication, e.g. a proxy authenticates an entity to be authenticated on behalf of this entity vis-à-vis an authentication entity
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13091 CLI, identification of calling line
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13095 PIN / Access code, authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13109 Initializing, personal profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13175 Graphical user interface [GUI], WWW interface, visual indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13204 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13389 LAN, internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/72 Subscriber identity

Abstract

A method of customer identification for personalizable Internet portals is described. The method identifies customers on the basis of the phone number of the calling party, in which the phone number and service request is transmitted from the terminal via the access network to a proxy server, which in turn is responsible for converting the protocol between the access network and Internet, in which depending on the service request, the proxy server inserts a customer ID into the service request and the customer ID is called up by the proxy server from a customer registry based on the MSISDN, so that at the portal the ID can be taken from the service request and the authorization of the customer can be verified through an inquiry sent to the customer registry at which point the service request of the customer is fulfilled.

Claims

1. A method of customer identification for personalizable Internet portals on the basis of a phone number of a calling party, comprising:

transmitting the phone number and a service request from a terminal via an access network to a proxy server;

the proxy server converting a protocol of the service request between the access network and Internet (intranet) protocols;

the proxy server calling up a customer ID from a customer registry based on a Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network number; and

depending on the service request, the proxy server inserting the customer ID into the service request;

at a portal, extracting the customer ID from the service request; and

at the portal, verifying an authorization of the customer through an inquiry sent to the customer registry at which point the service request of the customer is fulfilled.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the operation of establishing an additional session, during an initial service request, whereby data from the customer is saved.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the customer ID is used as a session ID.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is used for the customer registry.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising transmitting the Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network number from the terminal via an access network to the proxy server.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network number is used as a session ID.

7. A method of customer identification for personalizable Internet portals on the basis of a phone number of a calling party, comprising:

receiving the phone number and a service request from a terminal via an access network;

converting a protocol of the service request between the access network and Internet (intranet) protocols;

calling up a customer ID from a customer registry based on a Mobile Station Integrated Services Digital Network number; and

depending on the service request, inserting the customer ID into the service request;

extracting the customer ID from the service request at a portal; and

verifying an authorization of the customer through an inquiry sent to the customer registry at the portal.