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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:
Mar. 03, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 02, 2010
Applicant:

Kazu Yanagihara, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventor:

Kazu Yanagihara, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/04 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/321 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2143 (2013.01); H04L 63/308 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some embodiments provide a method for authenticating a user to access computing resources that uses transient event data regarding previous interactions of the user with the computing resources. The method receives a notification that a user is unable to provide a correct user identifier and password. The method generates authentication questions for the remote user using the transient event data. The authentication questions are presented to the user. The method authenticates the user based on answers to the password recovery questions. The user may be a remote user and the computing resources are a set of application servers to which the user has forgotten a password. The computing resources may be a portable device that the user wishes to access remotely in order to delete data from the portable device.


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