Centralized authentication system

• US 7,454,615 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2003
• Issued: 11/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Neil, Douglas R., Rivera, Jose F., Thomson, William George
• Primary Examiner(s): Moise; Emmanuel L
• Assistant Examiner(s): CALLAHAN, PAUL E
• Application Number:
  US10/431,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20040225887A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,021 Days
• Field of Search: 380/270, 713/152, 713/153, 713/155, 713/168, 726/2, 726/3, 726/8, 755/410, 755/414.2, 455/410
• 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

Centralized authentication systems are provided. A representative system, among others, includes a mobile authentication registration system, a content provider and a wireless internet server. The mobile authentication registration system resides on a content provider which is coupled to the internet, and is operable to receive a single identification number and password from a user independent of a platform the user is associated with, and determine that the identification number and password combination provided by the user is associated with a registered user. The content provider provides personalized internet content to any of a plurality of registered users on a plurality of platforms. The wireless internet server receives a connection request from a wireless device, sends an authentication request to the mobile authentication registration system, and provides a personalized internet content from the content provider to said at least one wireless device. Methods and other systems for multiple access portals are also provided.

Claims

1. A central authentication system, comprising:

a mobile authentication registration system coupled to the internet, operable to receive an authentication request for a first application service including an identification number and a password from a plurality of platforms, determine whether the identification number and password combination are a valid combination, and authenticate a user providing the valid combination as a registered user with respect to the first application service and a plurality of other application services for which the user had previously been provisioned by the mobile authentication registration system;

a content hub coupled to the mobile authentication registration system and the internet, the content hub being operable to store internet content available to a registered user; and

a translator coupled to the content hub and to the mobile authentication and registration system, the translator being operable to translate the internet content into at least a hypertext markup language and a wireless markup language and transmit it to the registered user, wherein the translator is further operable to translate the internet content into a short message service language, to translate the internet content into an extensible markup language, and to translate the internet content to send to a voice portal.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile authentication registration system determines the identification number and password are a valid combination by finding the combination in a list of a plurality of valid combinations.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile authentication registration system is further operable to store a plurality of preferences associated with a plurality of registered users.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein mobile authentication registration system is operable to provide a plurality of preferences associated with the registered user to the content hub.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the content hub is operable to use the plurality of preferences associated with the registered user to provide the registered user with personalized internet content.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a wireless internet server coupled to the translator, and operable to route the internet content received from the translator through an appropriate gateway to the registered user.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising:

a wireless access protocol gateway operable to send the wireless markup language to a wireless phone;

a short message service center operable to send at least one text message to a wireless device; and

a voice portal operable to convert text to speech and send the speech to a telephone.