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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2006
Jon Louis Bentley, New Providence, NJ (US);
George William Erhart, Loveland, CO (US);
Lawrence O'gorman, Madison, NJ (US);
Michael J. Sammon, Watchung, NJ (US);
David Joseph Skiba, Golden, CO (US);
Jon Louis Bentley, New Providence, NJ (US);
George William Erhart, Loveland, CO (US);
Lawrence O'Gorman, Madison, NJ (US);
Michael J. Sammon, Watchung, NJ (US);
David Joseph Skiba, Golden, CO (US);
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for authenticating a user based on the geo-location history of a geo-location-enabled wireless device (e.g., a GPS-enabled wireless telecommunications terminal, a smart card, an RFID tag, etc.). In a first illustrative embodiment, a user of a geo-location-enabled wireless telecommunications terminal (e.g., a GPS-enabled cell phone, a GPS-enabled notebook computer, etc.) who attempts to access a restricted resource is challenged with one or more questions that are generated from the terminal's geo-location history. In a second illustrative embodiment, a user of a data-processing system who attempts to access a restricted resource is asked to provide a username Z. The user is then challenged with one or more questions that are generated from the geo-location history of a wireless device that is associated with username Z (e.g., a cell phone that belongs to the user whose username is Z, etc.).