Method and system for enhanced security using location based wireless authentication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9014725-B2
Application number	US-73505407-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 13, 2007
Priority date	Feb 28, 2005
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

A method and system for enhancing security using location-based wireless authentication for a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: sending from the mobile device to a base station a message, the message having a unique identifier associated with the mobile device; appending, at the base station, a location identifier to said message; sending the message to a recipient; and authenticating the message at the recipient, said authenticating step confirming that the location identifier appended at the base station corresponds with an expected location for the message.

First claim

I claim:

1. An improved base station for use in authentication of a transaction, the base station forming part of a wireless network and communicating with a mobile device and with a network, the base station comprising:
a processor;
a communications subsystem;
wherein the processor and communications subsystem cooperate to:
receive a transaction message from the mobile device, the transaction message being a request to complete a financial transaction between a user of the m…

Assignees

• Clough Ian
• Blackberry Ltd

Inventors

• Clough Ian

Classifications

• H04W12/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/083

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/12

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W8/10

  Electricity · mapped topic