The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

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:
Dec. 07, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yi-hsiu Wei, Austin, TX (US);

David Yu Chang, Austin, TX (US);

Ching-Yun Chao, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/205 (2013.01); H04L 12/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for detecting a network application security question is provided. The method includes receiving permission to access social media sources of a user. The social media sources and Internet based sources of the user are monitored in response to receiving the permission and associated data is generated and stored. A request for access to a secure account of the user is received and a list of security questions is presented to the user. The list of security questions is analyzed with respect to the data and each security question is ranked. An answer to a question of the list is received and analyzed and security attributes of the answer with respect to a potential malicious attempt to provide a predicted answer to for access to secure account are determined. A resulting security process with respect to enabling access to the secure account is executed.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…