Bank of America Corporation

Benjamin Blad

Taylor Farris

Trish Gillis

Napangsiri Wanpen

Robert S Mumma

Patrick Burgess

A system for utilizing a mobile device as a computer authenticator is provided. The system may include a computing application executing on a computing apparatus. The system may include a secure backend server. The secure backend server may include a list of user identifiers, token serial numbers, device registration numbers and computing device identifiers. A pre-registration process may be used to embed a mobile token on a mobile device. A registration process may be used to pair the mobile device to the computing device. An in-use process may be used to authenticate the computing application using the mobile device.

Mobile device as a computer authenticator

One-time password ('OTP') generation on a smartwatch is provided. OTP generation may include communication between an application on a smartwatch and an application on a smartphone. The request for an OTP may be received at the smartwatch. A biometric identifier may also be received at the smartwatch. The smartwatch application may communicate with the smartphone application. An OTP may be generated within a third-party library within the smartphone application. The generated OTP may be transmitted from the smartphone application to the smartwatch application. The OTP may be displayed on the smartwatch.

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New York, NY, United States of America

Benjamin Blad