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US 9,313,212 B2Granted
Dynamic adjustment of authentication mechanism
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorWeng Sing Tang
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Abstract
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for dynamic adjustment of authentication mechanism is disclosed. The method includes: collecting location data of one or more agents relative to an agent attempting to authenticate to a data processing system; determining if the location data meets a threshold value; and responsive to the location data meeting the threshold value, relaxing an authentication scheme for the attempting agent to authenticate to the data processing system.
Claims9
A method, comprising:
- collecting location data of one or more agents relative to an agent attempting to authenticate to a data processing system, wherein collecting the location data comprises:
- determining a distance of each of the one or more agents from the attempting agent for the one or more agents located within a first proximity zone relative to the attempting agent;
- determining a distance of each of the one or more agents from the attempting agent for the one or more agents located within a second proximity zone relative to the attempting agent, the second proximity zone extending farther from the attempting agent than the first proximity zone;
- determining a first average distance based on the determined distances within the first proximity zone;
- determining a second average distance based on the determined distances within the second proximity zone;
- assigning a first weighted value to the first average distance;
- assigning a second weighted value to the second average distance;
- and
- calculating a value to be compared to the threshold value based on the first and second weighted values;
- determining if the value meets a threshold value;
- and
- responsive to the value meeting the threshold value, enabling authentication for the attempting agent to the data processing system using a relaxed authentication scheme.
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A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- logic executable by the processor to:
- collect location data of one or more agents relative to an agent attempting to authenticate to a data processing system, wherein the logic is executable to:
- determine a distance of each of the one or more agents from the attempting agent for the one or more agents located within a first proximity zone relative to the attempting agent;
- determine a distance of each of the one or more agents from the attempting agent for the one or more agents located within a second proximity zone relative to the attempting agent, the second proximity zone extending farther from the attempting agent than the first proximity zone;
- determine a first average distance based on the determined distances within the first proximity zone;
- determine a second average distance based on the determined distances within the second proximity zone;
- assign a first weighted value to the first average distance;
- assign a second weighted value to the second average distance;
- and
- calculate a value to be compared to the threshold value based on the first and second weighted values;
- determine if the value meets a threshold value;
- and
- responsive to the value meeting the threshold value, enable authentication for the attempting agent to the data processing system using a relaxed authentication scheme.
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A computer program product for dynamic adjustment of authentication mechanism, the computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising computer readable program code configured to:
- collect location data of one or more agents relative to an agent attempting to authenticate to a data processing system, wherein the program code is configured to:
- determine a distance of each of the one or more agents from the attempting agent for the one or more agents located within a first proximity zone relative to the attempting agent;
- determine a distance of each of the one or more agents from the attempting agent for the one or more agents located within a second proximity zone relative to the attempting agent, the second proximity zone extending farther from the attempting agent than the first proximity zone;
- determine a first average distance based on the determined distances within the first proximity zone;
- determine a second average distance based on the determined distances within the second proximity zone;
- assign a first weighted value to the first average distance;
- assign a second weighted value to the second average distance;
- and
- calculate a value to be compared to the threshold value based on the first and second weighted values;
- determine if the value meets a threshold value;
- and
- responsive to the value meeting the threshold value, enable authentication for the attempting agent to the data processing system using a relaxed authentication scheme.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.