Secure short message service (SMS) communications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9060271-B2
Application number	US-201314034279-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2013
Priority date	Jun 6, 2008
Publication date	Jun 16, 2015
Grant date	Jun 16, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for secure Short Message Service (SMS) communications. According to an embodiment, a method of providing secure Short Message Service (SMS) communications comprises requesting that SMS data to be sent from a client device to a remote location be encrypted. The method also comprises encrypting the SMS data by processing the SMS data with a Message Authentication Code (MAC) and a timestamp and/or counter along with second factor authentication information. The method further comprises sending the encrypted SMS data to the remote location by a secure SMS application via a regular SMS channel of the client device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a client device in communication with a remote location via a network;
one or more processors; and
one or more memories adapted to store a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by the one or more processors is adapted to cause the system to:
encrypt, internally by the client device, Short Message Service (“SMS”) data;
send the encrypted SMS data via a regular SMS interface of the client device to the remo…

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Mardikar Upendra

Classifications

• H04W12/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W12/04 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L9/3242

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L9/14

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0464

  Electricity · mapped topic