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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. 17, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 24, 2018
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ilya Sokolov, Boston, MA (US);

Keith Newstadt, Newton, MA (US);

Assignee:

NortonLifeLock Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/083 (2013.01); H04L 9/3226 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04L 63/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting passwords may include (i) intercepting network traffic indicating an attempted login procedure at a workload device to login to a protected resource, (ii) prompting a user, in response to intercepting the network traffic, and at an authentication device that has been registered to the user, to indicate whether to approve the attempted login procedure, (iii) collecting, at the authentication device, a credential for the attempted login procedure that was stored in a protected vault of the authentication device, (iv) providing, by the authentication device to the workload device, an authentication decision based on the collected credential, and (v) injecting, at the workload device, the authentication decision into a browser session to enable the user to complete the attempted login procedure to login to the protected resource. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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