US 2017/0302659 A1 · TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for authenticating users to secure services or apps utilizing reversed, hands-free and/or continuous two-factor authentication. When a user desires to access a secure service or app for which s/he is already registered, the user, having a registered mobile computing device in proximity to his or her presence, comes within a threshold distance of a computing device that includes the desired secure service or app. The computing device authenticates the particular mobile computing device as associated with the particular registered user that utilized that mobile device during registration. Subsequent to such device authentication, the user is able to login to the service or app by simply providing his or her user credentials at a login form associated therewith. Two-factor authentication in accordance with embodiments hereof is more secure and more efficient that traditional authentication methodologies.

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Dependent claims

A reverse two-factor authentication system comprising:

a processor;
a computer storage medium comprising computer executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed by the processor configure the system to:
detect, at a first time instance, that a first computing device is within a threshold distance of a second computing device, the second computing device including a service or app for which authentication is required;
determine that the first computing device is associated with at least one device authentication credential indicating that the first computing device was utilized by a registered user upon registering for access to the service or app;
receive the at least one device authentication credential;
after receiving the at least one device authentication credential, receive at least one user credential associated with a user of the second computing device;
verify that the at least one user credential is associated with the registered user;
and
permit the user of the second computing device to access the service or app.

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A method being performed by one or more computing devices including at least one processor, the method comprising:

at a first time instance, detecting that a first computing device is within a threshold distance of a second computing device, the second computing device including a service or app for which authentication is required;
permitting a user of the second computing device to access the service or app;
at a second time instance, detecting a distance between the first computing device and the second computing device that exceeds the threshold distance;
and
discontinuing permitting the user of the second computing device to access the service or app.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Two-factor authentication

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Abstract

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