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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. 09, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 21, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kevin C. Brown, Chandler's Ford, GB;

Peter W. Jenkins, Chandler's Ford, GB;

Stephen D. Pipes, Winchester, GB;

Larissa C. Romualdo Suzuki, London, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/08 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/629 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); H04L 63/107 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2111 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2113 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of managing authentication during a user session comprises the steps of operating a user session for a specific user, maintaining a user authentication level for the user session, monitoring one or more factors relating to the user's activity, applying one or more rules to the monitored factors, detecting that a rule has indicated the user's current authentication level is too high, and lowering the user's authentication level, without ending the user's session.


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