Patent ID: 8646034
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a communications system to provide services to a mobile handset using near field communication (NFC), the method comprising: configuring services for the mobile handset at a bootstrap controller that is communicating with a NFC application bootstrap server; determining a group of NFC application devices that the mobile handset can access at the NFC application bootstrap server and generating a service identity for the services; sending the service identity from the NFC application bootstrap server to the bootstrap controller; establishing a NFC link between the mobile handset and the bootstrap controller; deriving a first user credential at the mobile handset or receiving the first user credential at the mobile handset from the NFC application bootstrap server; sending the service identity, a second user credential and other service information to the group of NFC application devices; receiving an application setting for the services at the mobile handset through the bootstrap controller via the NFC link between the mobile handset and the bootstrap controller; and providing the services to the mobile handset at one of the group of NFC application devices, by a NFC link between the mobile handset and the one of the NFC application devices, wherein the deriving the first user credential is based on data including a key data and a key reference obtained through a first bootstrap procedure between the mobile handset and the NFC application bootstrap server using mutual authentication, and wherein the data including the key data and the key reference are stored in the mobile handset in response to the first bootstrap procedure and are verified to determine whether the key reference is valid or not, and when the key reference is not valid, the method further comprises obtaining another data including the key reference through a second bootstrap procedure between the mobile handset and the NFC application bootstrap server before the deriving the first user credential.