Social Authentication
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorNeel Ishwar Murarka
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes providing for presentation to a user a number of content objects. Some of the content objects are socially relevant to the user and some of the content objects are socially irrelevant to the user. The method also includes receiving input indicating a selection of one of the content objects by the user; determining whether the content object selected by the user is socially relevant to the user; authenticating the user if the content object selected by the user is socially relevant to the user; and declining to authenticate the user if the content object selected by the user is socially irrelevant to the user.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- by a computing device, providing for presentation to a user a plurality of content objects, one or more of the content objects being socially relevant to the user, one or more of the content objects being socially irrelevant to the user;
- by the computing device, receiving input indicating a selection by the user of one or more of the content objects;
- by the computing device, determining whether the content objects selected by the user are socially relevant to the user;
- by the computing device, authenticating the user if the content objects selected by the user is socially relevant to the user;
- and
- by the computing device, declining to authenticate the user if one or more of the content objects selected by the user is socially irrelevant to the user.
One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic configured when executed to:
- provide for presentation to a user a plurality of content objects, one or more of the content objects being socially relevant to the user, one or more of the content objects being socially irrelevant to the user;
- receive input indicating a selection by the user of one or more of the content objects;
- determine whether the content objects selected by the user are socially relevant to the user;
- authenticate the user if one or more of the content objects selected by the user are socially relevant to the user;
- and
- decline to authenticate the user if one or more of the content objects selected by the user are socially irrelevant to the user.
A method comprising:
- by a server computing device, sending data to a client computing device corresponding to a plurality of content objects, one or more of the content objects being socially relevant to a user, one or more of the content objects being socially irrelevant to the user;
- by the server computing device, receiving input from the client computing device indicating a selection by the user of one or more of the content objects;
- and
- by the server computing device, sending an indication to the client computing device of whether the content objects selected by the user are socially relevant to the user, the user being authenticated by the client computing device based at least in part on whether the content objects selected by the user are socially relevant to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.