Patent ID: 8056122
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A user authentication method of authenticating a user in an authentication server module installed in a server, said module using information specifically indicative of the user's hardware platform and the user's e-mail address, the user authentication method comprising the steps of: Determining whether an authentication client module including a hardware identification symbol uniquely identifying the hardware is present on the user'hardware, said authentication client module reading said identification symbol and storing it in said user's authentication platform; if an authentication client module is not present, sending an authentication client module from the authentication server module to a user's authentication platform for installation in said user's authentication platform, said user's authentication platform including a hardware having a hardware identification symbol that uniquely identifies said hardware and being readable by said authentication client module, said authentication client module reading said identification symbol; said server obtaining the user's e-mail address and said hardware identification symbol as the user's ID from said authentication client module; determining a user authentication by said authentication server module in said server according to whether or not the e-mail address and hardware identification symbol obtained from the authentication server module is identical to a user's e-mail address and hardware identification symbol stored in an authentication database; said authentication server module transmitting a confirmation e-mail to a user in the case that an e-mail address which is identical to the received e-mail address does not exist in the authentication database; said server receiving from said user an identifier of the user's e-mail address and the hardware identification symbol in response to said confirmation e-mail; and said authentication server module recognizing the identifier of the e-mail as a response e-mail for the confirmation e-mail transmitted to the user, storing the hardware identification symbol in the authentication database, and performing user authentication registration, wherein the confirmation e-mail is made up of a message written in hypertext markup language (HTML): activating said message and causing the e-mail address and the hardware identification symbol to be transmitted to the authentication server module.