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Method for authenticating transactions

US10579987B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 1, 2014
Grant dateMar 3, 2020
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Expiry dateJun 18, 2036

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L9/50
  • WIPO fieldIT methods for management
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for authenticating transactions through a simplex communication. To allow trusting the transaction with a payment by an image code such QR code, the invention proposes means to authenticate said transaction. For that, when the mobile payment application is loaded into preferably a secure element of the user mobile device a registration process is enabled. During this registration process on a server, an account of the user is created and a set of unpredictable numbers in quantity N is generated. This set of unpredictable numbers is transmitted to the mobile payment application for storage. The payment application uses the stored set of transaction unpredictable numbers for next N times transactions performed by the mobile payment application for transaction cryptogram calculation. The same transaction unpredictable number is recovered in the server side during the transaction authorization process.

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