Patent ID: 8181234

Claim:
An authentication system in a client/server system wherein an online service server, a one-time password server, and an online service client are connected via a network, comprising: the online service server; the one-time password server; the online service client; and a one-time password client, wherein the one-time password server stores service usage details with respect to an online service authentication preparation request containing the service usage details received from the online service client; the one-time password server, after authenticating a download request for a one-time password for online service authentication, shares common keys for encrypting sets of service usage details and a one-time password for online service authentication with the one-time password client; the one-time password client decrypts, with the common key, and displays sets of the service usage details and one-time password for online service authentication; and the online service server authenticates the online service authentication request received from the online service client by a one-time password for online service authentication, the online service server, after receiving a set of the encrypted service usage details and the one-time password for online service authentication from the one-time password server, encodes it to a QR Code and transmits it to the online service client; the online service client displays the QR Code; and the one-time password client inputs and decodes the QR Code, then decrypts the QR code with the common key.