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US 11,057,375 B1Granted
User authentication through registered device communications
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsMyles Conley, Aaron Michael Brown
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Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments providing user authentication through registered device communications. An authentication token is generated for a user account. The authentication token is embedded within a digital content item. The digital content item is sent to a first client device that is registered to the user account. A user is authenticated for access to the user account based at least in part on the user providing the authentication token embedded within the digital content item.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- generating, via one or more computing devices, a plurality of unique authentication tokens for a user account;
- sending, via the one or more computing devices, individual ones of the plurality of unique authentication tokens to corresponding ones of a plurality of client devices registered to the user account, wherein a first unique authentication token of the plurality of unique authentication tokens is embedded within a digital content item, the digital content item comprising at least one of:
- video content, audio content, or an electronic book, and a second unique authentication token of the plurality of unique authentication tokens specifies a sequence of illuminations for at least one lighted indicator of one of the plurality of client devices, wherein the digital content item into which the first unique authentication token is embedded is sent to a corresponding one of the plurality of client devices before an authentication request is received from a user;
- receiving, via the one or more computing devices, the authentication request originated by the user;
- responsive to receiving the authentication request, prompting, via the one or more computing devices, the user to access the digital content item in order to provide the first unique authentication token;
- and
- authenticating, via the one or more computing devices, the user for access to the user account based at least in part on the user providing at least N unique authentication tokens of the plurality of unique authentication tokens, the at least N unique authentication tokens including the first unique authentication token, wherein N is an integer greater than one.
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A system, comprising:
- at least one computing device;
- and
- at least one service executable in the at least one computing device, wherein when executed the at least one service causes the at least one computing device to at least:
- generate an authentication token for a user account;
- embed the authentication token within a digital content item, the digital content item comprising at least one of:
- video content, audio content, or an electronic book;
- send the digital content item to a first client device that is registered to the user account so that the digital content item is preloaded on the first client device prior to receiving an authentication request to authenticate a user for access to the user account;
- responsive to receiving the authentication request, prompt the user to access the digital content item in order to provide the authentication token;
- and
- authenticate the user for access to the user account based at least in part on the user providing the authentication token embedded within the digital content item.
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A method, comprising:
- generating, via one or more computing devices, an authentication token for a user account;
- embedding, via the one or more computing devices, the authentication token within a digital content item, the digital content item comprising at least one of:
- video content, audio content, or an electronic book;
- sending, via the one or more computing devices, the digital content item to a first client device that is registered to the user account so that the digital content item is preloaded on the first client device prior to receiving an authentication request to authenticate a user for access to the user account;
- responsive to receiving the authentication request, prompting, via the one or more computing devices, the user to access the digital content item in order to provide the authentication token;
- and
- authenticating, via the one or more computing devices, the user for access to the user account based at least in part on the user providing the authentication token embedded within the digital content item.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.