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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:
Apr. 21, 2015

Filed:

May. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Ashish Bhatia, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/31 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method may include receiving, by a computing device, a recovery message directed to a first account associated with a messaging service provider. The recovery message may include access information associated with a second account of an online service provider. In an embodiment, the method may include, in response to receiving a recovery message, determining whether one or more suspicious events involving the first account have occurred, in response to determining that one or more suspicious events have occurred, prompting a user to provide authentication information in order to access the recovery message, receiving one or more responses from a user, verifying the one or more responses, and in response to determining that each of the responses is correct, granting access, by the computing device, to the recovery message.


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