Patent ID: 6934838

Claim:
A method for establishing secure services between a user and a service provider, the method comprises the steps of: a) storing, by the service provider, initialization data and mapped user identifying secret in a mapping repository; b) receiving, from the user, an initialization request for the initialization data to the service provider, wherein the initialization request is processed based on a user's copy of the user identifying secret; c) verifying, by the service provider, the initialization request based on the user identifying secret stored in the mapping repository; d) providing, by the service provider, processed initialization data to the user when the initialization request was verified, wherein the processed initialization data was provided in a secured manner based on the user identifying secret; e) processing, by the user, the processed initialization data based on the user's copy of the user identifying secret to recapture the initialization data; and f) utilizing, by the user, the initialization data to obtain profile information that is useable to access a secured service.