ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,877, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SWISSCOM AG (Bern, Switzerland).
"User authentication in communication systems" was invented by Thorsten Hau (Kaufdorf, Switzerland), Aibek Sarimbekov (Zurich) and Alexander Scharnofske (Bern, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for user authentication in communication systems. An identification token may be generated in response to an action in a user terminal, with the action in the user terminal requiring an action in a remote server, with generating the identification token being triggered in response to a request from the user terminal that necessita...