US 12,120,121 B2
Apparatus and method for online service access control
Taekhun Kim, Seongnam-si (KR)
Assigned to NCSOFT Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by NCSOFT Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/897,708.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0167975 (KR), filed on Dec. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0185047 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 67/303 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/102 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0876 (2013.01); H04L 63/104 (2013.01); H04L 67/303 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for online service access control, the method being performed by an access control apparatus, the method comprising:
determining, by the access control apparatus, a device having control right for an online service from among a plurality of user devices that are concurrently logged into a same user account through a login procedure using authentication information of the same user account;
providing, by the access control apparatus, first data generated, by a server providing the online service, for the online service to each of the plurality of user devices; and
providing, by the access control apparatus and while the plurality of user devices are concurrently logged into the same user account through the login procedure using the authentication information of the same user account, second data generated by the device having control right for the online service to the server, such that only data generated by the device having control right is provided to the server and data for the online service generated by the remaining devices of the plurality of user devices not having control right is not provided to the server.