Continual peer authentication
AssigneeAvaya Inc.
InventorsJon Louis Bentley, Michael J. Sammon, Anjur Sundaresan Krishnakumar, David Mandel Weiss
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Abstract
A method for orchestrating peer authentication during a call (e.g., a telephone call, a conference call between three or more parties, an instant messaging [IM] chat session, etc.) is disclosed. In particular, a user is first authenticated in order to participate in a call (e.g., via entering a password, etc.), and subsequently during the call the user may be peer authenticated. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, a user who participates in a call might be prompted to authenticate another user on the call based on particular events or user behavior during the call.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- presenting by a data-processing system an authentication challenge to a first user who wishes to participate in a call;
- admitting by said data-processing system said first user to said call when said authentication challenge is met;
- and
- generating by said data-processing system during said call, after the admission of said first user, a signal that prompts a second user participating in said call to authenticate said first user, wherein the second user consists of a human.
A method comprising:
- presenting by a data-processing system an authentication challenge to a first user who wishes to participate in a call;
- admitting by said data-processing system said first user to said call at time t1 when said authentication challenge is met;
- and
- generating by said data-processing system during said call, at time t2, a signal that prompts a second user participating in said call to authenticate said first user, wherein t2>t1, and wherein the second user consists of a human.
A method comprising:
- presenting by a data-processing system an authentication challenge to a first user who wishes to participate in a call;
- admitting by said data-processing system said first user to said call at time t1 when said authentication challenge is met;
- generating by said data-processing system during said call, at time t2, a first signal that prompts a second user participating in said call to authenticate said first user, wherein the second user consists of a human;
- and
- generating by said data-processing system during said call, at time t3, a second signal that prompts a third user participating in said call to authenticate said first user, wherein t3>t2>t1.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.