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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009

Filed:

May. 20, 2004
Applicants:

Aron M. Holzman, Bellevue, WA (US);

Raja Pazhanivel Perumal, Kirkland, WA (US);

Michael Shayne Agney, Issaquah, WA (US);

Vikas Khandelwal, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Aron M. Holzman, Bellevue, WA (US);

Raja Pazhanivel Perumal, Kirkland, WA (US);

Michael Shayne Agney, Issaquah, WA (US);

Vikas Khandelwal, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

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.


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