At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Duke University

Amre Shakimov

Ramon Caceres

Alexander Varshavsky

Landon Cox

Fan Yang

Feng Zhao

Ivan Beschastnikh

Jacky Shen

Harold Lim

Harold Vinson Chao Lim

A method, computer readable medium and apparatus for providing a virtual individual server service within a communications network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request from a subscriber of the communications network to subscribe to the virtual individual server service, provides a virtual individual server to the subscriber in response to the request and executes at least one application via the virtual individual server using at least one piece of personal information associated with the subscriber.

Method and apparatus for providing mobile and social services via virtual individual servers

Sensor-based authentication technique embodiments are presented which generally employ sensor readings captured by a user's computing device (such as a mobile computing device like a cell phone, smart phone, PDA, and so on) to authenticate the user's access to a computer network-based service (such as a web-service) that is secured with traditional textual passwords. These traditional passwords are saved in an off-device password repository service. The aforementioned sensor readings are not cached on the user's computing device and are immediately streamed to the password repository service, where they are validated against a pre-arranged, known sensor-based password. If the validation succeeds, access to the password protected service is brokered by the password repository service on behalf of the user using the appropriate traditional password, and the user's computing device is granted access.

Sensor-based authentication to a computer network-based service

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Durham, NC, United States of America

Amre Shakimov