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US 2006/0218393 A1Published application
Systems and methods for adaptive authentication
OwnerHendrich Hernandez, Robert Winterinventors
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Abstract
Systems and methods for authentication of a client device within a network using one or more characteristics of the authentication method/s previously used to authenticate the client device for network communications.
Claims20
A method of communicating with an information handling system, said method comprising:
- selecting a network authentication method;
- communicating the identity of said selected network authentication method to said information handling system;
- wherein said authentication method is selected based on one or more characteristics of at least one authentication method previously used to authenticate said information handling system for network communications.
A method of communicating with a first information handling system configured as a client device, said method comprising:
- storing in a memory of a second information handling system configured as a network authentication device one or more characteristics of at least one authentication method previously used by said network authentication device to authenticate said client device for wired or wireless network communications;
- receiving an authentication request in said network authentication device by wired or wireless communication from said client device;
- selecting a first network authentication method based on said one or more characteristics of said at least one authentication method previously used by said network authentication device to authenticate said client device for wired or wireless network communications that are stored in said memory of said network authentication device;
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- communicating the identity of said first selected network authentication method by wired or wireless communication to said client device.
2 more elements
An information handling system, said information handling system being configured to:
- select a network authentication method based on one or more characteristics of at least one authentication method previously used to authenticate a client information handling system for network communications;
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- communicate the identity of said selected network authentication method to said client information handling system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.