Authentication system for connecting client to server providing particular information using dedicated system and method therefor

• US 20030172266A1
• Filed: 08/06/2001
• Published: 09/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eun Seog Lee, Tophead.com
• Original Assignee: Eun Seog Lee, Tophead.com
• Inventors: Lee, Eun Seog
• Granted Patent: US 7,073,058 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/168
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226

Abstract

An authentication system and method therefor is provided, in which a dedicated system is installed to allow only a computer system which is monopolistically and exclusively supplied by a company operating an information providing server to be used to access the server. Here, user computer includes an authentication system which generates a specific registration code of the system. The authentication system includes user computer for generating a registration code for authenticating the user computer, and a system server which receives the registration code of the user computer and ascertain whether or not the user computer is registered.

Claims

1. An authentication system for connection to a particular information providing server using a dedicated system, the authentication system comprising:

at least one user computer connected to the Internet, for generating a registration code for authenticating the user computer necessary for a log-in process in order to receive information having a particular format; and

a system server which receives the registration code of the user computer and ascertains whether or not the user computer is registered, in the case that the system server is accessed by the user computer via the Internet.

2. The authentication system of claim 1, wherein said registration code generated in the user computer further comprises a product number and a security code as plug and play data which is used in order to automatically install a driver for each device of the user computer.

3. The authentication system of claim 1, wherein said system server comprises:

a member database (DB) storing data of a plurality of users;

a member management server for performing member registration and management via the member DB;

an advertising DB storing advertising data displayed on an auxiliary screen of the double monitor;

an advertising server for managing the advertises displayed on the double monitor according to the settings of an operator of the system server;

a home page DB storing data necessary for operation of the home page of the system server; and

a web server connecting the system server to the Internet and managing the home page of the system server.

4. The authentication system of claim 1, wherein said system server generates the registration code for authenticating the user computer if the user computer is turned on, requests the user computer connected to the system server to send the registration code to ascertain whether the user computer is a dedicated system which can use the contents of the system server if the user computer is connected to the Internet and accesses the system server providing particular information, and provides the information of the system server after ascertaining whether the user computer adopts the dedicated system which can use the information of the system server.

5. The authentication system of claim 1, wherein said user computer uses a double monitor including a main screen monitor which main contents processed by a user program are displayed and an auxiliary screen monitor on which a use environment indication and media indication of the user computer, a link (banner) linking web pages, advertises are displayed.

6. The authentication system of claim 1 or 5, wherein said plug and play data used as the registration code uses plug and play data of the double monitor in the user computer.

11. The authentication system of claim 3, wherein said system server further comprises an authentication code DB storing authentication codes of the user computers, and a system authentication server for managing the system authentication of the user computers.

7. An authentication method for connection to a particular information providing server using a dedicated system, the authentication method comprising the steps of:

generating a registration code for authenticating a user computer system if the user computer system is turned on;

requesting each user computer connected to a system server to send a registration code, if a user computer accesses the system server providing particular information via the Internet, thereby checking whether the user computer adopts a dedicated system which can use information of the system server; and

providing information of the system server to the user computer after ascertaining whether or not the user computer adopts the dedicated system which can use the information of the system server.

8. The authentication method of claim 7, wherein said registration code further comprises a product number and a security code as plug and play data which is used in order to automatically install a driver for each device of the user computer, in said registration code generation step.

9. The authentication method of claim 7, wherein said user computer uses a double monitor including a main screen monitor which main contents processed by a user program are displayed and an auxiliary screen monitor on which a use environment indication and media indication of the user computer, a link (banner) linking web pages, advertises are displayed.

10. The authentication method of claim 7, wherein information provided via the system server can be completely used in the case that a dedicated system is used, while the information can be restrictively used if the user computer does not adopt the dedicated system, in the step of providing information of the system server after ascertaining whether the dedicated system capable of using the system server information is adopted in the user computer.