Patent ID: 8281375
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a number generator residing on a first server to generate a first authentic One Time Password (OTP) token to authenticate an Internet service and a second authentic OTP token different from the first authentic OTP token, to authenticate a user device from a shared clock; a transmitter residing on the first server to transmit the first authentic OTP token and the second authentic OTP token to a second server; a receiver residing on the second server to receive the first authentic OTP token and the second authentic OTP token from the first server, and to receive a user-provided OTP token from the user device; a second transmitter residing at the second server to transmit an interface comprising a list of OTP tokens, the list comprising the first authentic OTP token and at least two alternate OTP tokens to the user device, the interface including a display that includes the list comprising the first authentic OTP token and at least two alternate OTP tokens displayed at the same time on the user device, the at least two alternate OTP tokens being randomly chosen numerical OTP tokens having a same number of digits as the first authentic OTP token; and a comparator residing on the second server to compare the second authentic OTP token received from the first server with the user-provided OTP token to authenticate the user device.