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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:
May. 23, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Hyun Kyu Seo, Austin, TX (US);

Lawrence Humphrey, Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9536 (2019.01); G06F 40/242 (2020.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01); G06F 21/46 (2013.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/46 (2013.01); G06F 16/9536 (2019.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01);
Abstract

Providing an indication of user-tailored password strength is provided. A registration of a user in a password strength management service is received. A list of social media accounts corresponding to the user and access credentials corresponding to each social media account in the list is received from the user. Social media information corresponding to the user is gathered from the social media accounts using the access credentials corresponding to each social media account in the list. In response to receiving an input of a new password string by the user, password strength of the new password string is evaluated in view of the gathered social media information corresponding to the user.


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