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

• US 7,073,058 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2001
• Issued: 07/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eun Seog Lee, Tophead.com
• Original Assignee: Eun Seog Lee, Tophead.com
• Inventors: Lee, Eun Seog
• Primary Examiner(s): Moise, Emmanuel L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): POPHAM, JEFFREY D
• Application Number:
  US09/890,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20030172266A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,847 Days
• Field of Search: 713/168, 713/2, 725/42
• 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, the user computer includes an authentication system which generates a specific registration code for the system. The authentication system includes the 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 ascertains 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 through the Internet and ascertains whether or not the user computer is authorized by a member identification and a password to receive specific content from said system server;

said computer including a basic input/output system for recognizing hardware devices and reading identification data therefrom, a dual screen display monitor and a driver for said dual screen display monitor, said dual screen display monitor having two independent display screens and identification data including a product number and a security code, said basic input/output system transferring said identification data to said driver and said driver establishing said registration code to include said product number as said member identification and said security code as said password said driver transmitting said registration code to said system server through the Internet;

said system server outputting said specific content to said user computer responsive to said system server authenticating said user computer and a subsequent request for content by said user computer, said specific content including a first portion of said specific content for unobstructed display on a primary screen of said two screens of said dual screen display monitor and a second portion of said specific content for simultaneous unobstructed display on an auxiliary screen of said two screens of said dual screen display monitor.

2. 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 said auxiliary screen of said dual screen display monitor;

an advertising server for managing the advertising data according to 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 displayed on said primary screen of said dual screen display monitor; and

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

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

providing a dual screen display monitor to a user and connecting said dual screen display monitor to a user computer;

retrieving a product number and a security code from said dual screen display monitor during initialization of said user computer;

generating a registration code for authenticating said user computer system if the user computer system is turned on, said registration code being generated to include said product number as a member identification and said security code as a password;

sending said registration code to the information providing server via the Internet, thereby checking whether the user computer is registered to receive information of a system server for simultaneous unobstructed display on two display screens of said dual screen display monitor; and

providing information from 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 responsive to a request therefrom subsequent to registration of said user computer being confirmed and displaying a first portion of said information on a primary display screen of said dual screen display monitor and displaying a second portion of said information on an auxiliary display screen of said dual screen display monitor.

4. The authentication method of claim 3, wherein said registration code includes the step of using 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 said dual screen display monitor.