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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:
May. 07, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Calvin B. Swart, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Sharon M. Trewin, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/40 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/36 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/40 (2013.01); G06F 21/316 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 21/36 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01);
Abstract

A request for authentication from a user of a computer system is received. An authentication prompt is transmitted to the user, wherein the authentication prompt corresponds to a plurality of stored authentication responses, and wherein each of the plurality of stored authentication responses is used to authenticate the user. A first user authentication response is received. Whether to accept the first user authentication response based on a degree of similarity between the first user authentication response is determined and a stored authentication response from the plurality of stored authentication responses. Responsive to accepting the first user authentication response, a security score is calculated representing a level of confidence with respect to verifying the user for authentication, based on a type of authentication response for the first user authentication response. Responsive to determining that the security score is greater than an authentication score the user is authenticated.


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