Sony Corporation

Junichi Ootani

Keiji Yuzawa

Atsushi Fuse

Tomohiro Katsube

Naoshi Suzuki

Takamasa Iwade

Hiroshi Iwasaki

Masato Yokobori

Takafumi Masuda

This invention relates to a service providing system and a service providing method for allowing users to receive a service from a service server without having to submit their security-critical information to that server. A CE devicerequests provision of the service by transmitting authentication information such as a device ID to a surrogate authentication serverThe surrogate authentication serverauthenticates the CE devicebased on the authentication information and transmits a result of the authentication to the service serverIn turn, the service serverprovides the CE devicewith the requested service based on the result of the authentication received from the surrogate authentication serverThe CE devicethen uses the service provided by the service serverThis system can be applied advantageously to network-based marketing systems.

Service providing system and method

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Tokyo, Japan

Junichi Ootani