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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Elie A. Jreij, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Tave P. Dunn, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Information and Communication, Networks, Inc., Boca Raton, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/500 ; H04M 1/700 ; H04M 3/00 ; H04M 1/60 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/500 ; H04M 1/700 ; H04M 3/00 ; H04M 1/60 ;
Abstract
Access is granted to a portion of a computing system, such as to a configuration menu of a telephone system. In order to grant access, a password is received from a user. A variable password is also calculated. The variable password varies with time. For example, the variable password varies with a current date and with a time of day stored by the computing system. The password received from the user is compared with the calculated variable password. When the password received from the user is equal to the calculated variable password, access is granted.