ACCOUNT CREATION VIA A MOBILE DEVICE"

Application 676/DEL/2005 published 2006-11-10, filed 2005-03-29
Creating an account via a mobile device. A request to create an account is received from a user via a mobile device. The request is received from the mobile device according to a wireless communications protocol. In response to the received request, a confirmation message is delivered to the mobile device for rendering to the user as a challenge. A response to the rendered challenge is received from the user via the mobile device. It is determined if the received response to the rendered challenge corresponds to the delivered confirmation message. And the account is created for the user if the received response to the rendered challenge is determined to correspond to the delivered confirmation message. Other aspects of the invention are directed to computer-readable media for use with account creation via a mobile device.

Applicant

1)MICROSOFT CORPORATION
:ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND, WASHINGTON 98052, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. U.S.A.

Inventor

1)ARON M. HOLZMAN 2)MIAHAEL S. AGNEY 3)RAJA PAZHANIVEL PERUMAL 4)VIKAS KHANDELWAL

International Info

Classification: G06F17/60,H04B7/26

Priority Information

60/565,652 U.S.A. 2004-04-27