Methods and system for controlling the access to an authentication-dependent function
US11007976B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 11, 2018 |
| Grant date | May 18, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 11, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2209/84
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system controls access to an authentication-dependent or authentication-conditional function of a vehicle, via a smart device or smartphone. For the authentication, an authentication feature of the smart device is compared with a stored authentication feature of the device, and authentication is granted if they are identical or sufficiently correspond, the authentication is subjected to an approval process by a user of the smart device, in which it is determined whether the user approves the authentication or not. The authentication and the approval process have at least one channel in a protected region of the smart device and/or are themselves embedded in the protected region, which lies outside a region of the operating system of the applications and/or the apps of the smart device. The function of the device is executed when there is an authentication and an approval.
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