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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2013
Fmr Llc, Boston, MA (US);
Robert C. Toole, Hingham, MA (US);
Jonathan Hromi, Watertown, MA (US);
John McDonough, Nahant, MA (US);
Hadley Rupert Stern, West Newton, MA (US);
Seth Warren Brooks, South Easton, MA (US);
FMR LLC, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, from a device used by a user, a request to access a resource hosted by a computer system; identifying, by the computer system, a level of risk associated with the user requesting access to the resource; adjusting, by the computer system an authentication standard for access to the resource, adjusting based on the identified level of risk; determining values for authentication factors used in authenticating the user's access to the resource; applying weights to the values for the authentication factors; and determining, based on a comparison of the weighted values to the adjusted authentication standard, whether the user is authorized to access the resource.