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Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2020
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Charles Stickle, Saint James, NY (US);

Robert Eric Fitzgerald, Herndon, VA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A user-promotion process allows a service provider to grant the security roles associated with a target user account to a requester by obtaining approvals from a quorum of approving users. The quorum requirements and the identity of the approving users may be established by the target user or an account manager. Upon receiving, from a promotion candidate, a request to assume security roles of a target user, the service provider identifies the approving users from the target user's account record. Approvals are requested from the approving users, and if a quorum of approvals is received by the service provider, the promotion candidate is allowed to assume the roles of the target user. If a quorum of approvals is not received, then substitute approving users may be identified based at least in part on those approving users that did not respond to the approval request.


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