One-Time Password Message Display Optimization
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for transmitting one-time passwords (OTPs) via electronic messages often fail to ensure readability on mobile devices in standby or locked mode, hindering secure authentication processes without device activation.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that identify the type of mobile device and optimize the display format of OTP messages, allowing partial display on the device screen in standby or locked mode, ensuring secure authentication without device activation, using SMS, EMS, or MMS messages, and employing look-up tables or device interrogation for optimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If OTP messages are transmitted via standard electronic messaging services, then message delivery is achieved, but display readability in standby or locked mode cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by customizing the display format of OTP messages according to the specific type of mobile device and its screen characteristics. The system identifies the device type and applies device-specific display optimizations, ensuring that the OTP is readable in standby or locked mode on each device type while maintaining compatibility across different platforms.
2Ease of operation
If the screen is locked to prevent accidental input and preserve battery, then security and energy conservation are improved, but OTP message accessibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by optimizing the display format of the OTP message before the device screen is locked. The system prepares the message in a format that ensures readability in standby or locked mode, so that when the user needs to authenticate, the OTP is already accessible without requiring full device activation or screen unlocking.
3Reliability
If device activation is required to read OTP messages, then security is improved, but authentication time and user convenience are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by allowing the OTP message to be displayed in a limited but sufficient manner in standby or locked mode. Instead of requiring full device activation, the system displays just enough information (the OTP itself) in an optimized format that can be read without unlocking the screen, reducing authentication time while maintaining security.
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
AI summary
The present invention provides a method of and system for transmitting a one-time password in an electronic message. The method at least comprises putting the one-time password in an electronic messaging service (e.g. SMS, MMS) message, identifying a type of mobile electronic device of an intended recipient of the one-time password, optimizing a display format of the electronic message to the type of mobile device, transmitting the message to the mobile device, and displaying at least a part of the message in the optimized display format on a screen of the mobile device in a standby or locked mode of the screen. The system at least comprises an electronic messaging service server (101) configured to put the one-time password in an electronic messaging service message (103, 104, 105, 106) and to transmit the message, a mobile electronic device (107, 109, 111, 113) of an intended recipient of the one-time password, wherein the device comprises a screen having at least one of a standby mode and a locked mode and the device is configured to receive the message and to display it in the standby or locked mode of the screen, an identifier associating a type of the mobile electronic device with the intended recipient, and an optimizer of a display format of the electronic message to the type of the mobile electronic device of the intended recipient. Thus the intended recipient may view the part of the message displayed on the screen of their device in a format which is optimized to the screen, even when the screen is in a standby or locked mode, and can therefore complete an authentication process for a particular session or transaction using the one-time password, without having to activate the device or open the message.