Patent ID: 8082591

Claim:
An authentication gateway apparatus for accessing a ubiquitous service, comprising: a first authentication device of a portable apparatus that transmits an authentication data request message to an authentication server of a service provider, and receives and stores an authentication token from the authentication server; a plurality of ubiquitous apparatuses that are connected to the portable apparatus via wireless communication; and second authentication devices that are connected to the first authentication device of the portable apparatus by a wireless communication scheme, have individual unique values, and are correspondingly attached to, incorporated in, or connected to the ubiquitous apparatuses, and wherein, when the first authentication device of the portable apparatus is connected to the second authentication device of the ubiquitous apparatus through the wireless communication, the first authentication device requests its unique value from the second authentication device and receives the unique value from the second authentication device, and wherein the first authentication device combines the stored authentication token with the unique value of the second authentication device, and transmits the combined authentication token and unique value to the authentication server, to thereby access the ubiquitous service.