Patent ID: 7039812
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for authenticating the identity of a user by an authority, comprising: enrolling a plurality of credentials for the user with the authority; establishing at least one shared secret between the user and the authority relating to a predefined shared secret manner for presenting each of a plurality of current user credentials to the authority for the user for consecutive occasions; receiving at least one currently presented user credential by the authority for authentication of the identity of the user; authenticating an identity of the user by the authority based on a correspondence between the enrolled and current user credentials and a correspondence between the shared secret manner for presenting the current user credential and the manner in which the current user credential is presented to the authority; wherein receiving the current user credential further comprises receiving at least one additional currently presented user credential by the authority; and wherein receiving the current user credential further comprises receiving at least one additional currently presented user credential by the authority in one of a plurality of randomly selected predefined shared secret sequences as directed by the authority.