Supporting proximity based security code transfer from mobile/tablet application to access device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104853-B2
Application number	US-201313895478-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 16, 2013
Priority date	May 16, 2013
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for authenticating users to a computing application. A mobile or tablet device is used to generate a security code. Near field communication (NFC) hardware on the mobile device is used to transfer the security code from the mobile device to a computer. To transfer the one-time value, a user simply taps an NFC enabled mobile device on an NFC enabled computing device (e.g. a laptop running a web browser used to access a web service). In one embodiment, doing so triggers a connection between the two devices and an application running on the mobile device transfers the security code to an NFC receiver application running on the computer. The receiving computer may be configured to auto-fill the received security code in the appropriate form field of the application authentication interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for performing a two-factor authentication process, the method comprising:
detecting a mobile computing device being positioned within a specified proximity of a computing device;
establishing a connection with the mobile computing device;
receiving, over the connection, a security value;
passing the security value to a browser helper object on the computing device;
populating a login form with the security value, wherein the login form is r…

Assignees

• Symantec Corp

Inventors

• Mathur Mohit
• Venkataramani Srinath

Classifications

• H04L63/0853

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F21/35 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W12/068

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0492

  Electricity · mapped topic