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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:
Sep. 07, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 16, 2015
Applicant:

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Gary D. Cudak, Wake Forest, NC (US);

Nathan J. Peterson, Durham, NC (US);

Amy L. Rose, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Jennifer J. Lee-Baron, Morrisville, NC (US);

Bryan L. Young, Tualatin, OR (US);

John S. Crowe, Durham, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/36 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/36 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2101 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2103 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach is disclosed that presents, to a user of a device, content items accessible from the device with the content items being identified as familiar to an actual user of the device. In addition, one or more comparable items are also presented with the comparable items being identified as unfamiliar to the actual user of the device. A response is received from the user at the device that differentiates the content items the comparable items with the user being authenticated, or not, based on the response.


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