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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2019
Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED, Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for using the active connection of connected devices for additional security in the conveyance of sensitive data from a computing device includes: storing sensitive data; storing one or more device identifiers, wherein each device identifier is associated with a connected device separate from the computing device; receiving a user instruction requesting use of the sensitive data; detecting one or more active communication channels between the computing device and external connected devices; identifying, for each of the detected one or more active communication channels, a device identifier associated with the respective external connected device; verifying that at least one of the identified device identifiers is included in the one or more stored device identifiers; and transmitting the sensitive data after the verification.