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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:
Aug. 27, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 06, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jinho Hwang, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Maja Vukovic, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Frederick Y. Wu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/34 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/35 (2013.01); G06F 21/36 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment of the invention provides a system and method for risk-aware multiple factor authentication based on pattern recognition and calendar. Recent activity performed by the user can be obtained from data sources and stored in a user transaction database. An interface can receive a login name from a user; and, a processor can select one or more security questions regarding the recent activity performed by the user. The interface can receive an answer to the security question(s) from the user; and, the processor can determine whether the answer(s) matches data stored in the user transaction database and is associated with the login name of the user.


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