Patent ID: 8839394
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for authenticating a user of an application requiring secure access to the application using a mobile access point, an authentication system, and a wireless device associated with the user, the method comprising: providing an invocation element on the wireless device, the invocation element being activated by a single user action on a user interface of the wireless device; receiving an indication at the authentication system that the invocation element has been activated; obtaining a location of the wireless device; determining whether the user of the wireless device is an authorized user based on a previously registered association between a wireless device identifier associated with the wireless device and an application identifier associated with the application using the authentication system; approving the user to use the application using the authentication system based on a predetermined location criterion related to at least one of the obtained wireless device location and a location of the mobile access point, when the wireless device is associated with an authorized user, wherein the mobile access point comprises a personal computing device configured to execute software applications that send and receive data over a data network and wherein the predetermined location criterion comprises a determination that the wireless device and the mobile access point are within a predetermined proximity of one another; and producing an indication on the wireless device that the user has been authenticated when the user was approved using the authentication system, whereby the user can be reliably authenticated for use of the application with a single activation of the invocation element.