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Social authentication for account recovery

  • US 10,013,728 B2
  • Filed: 07/08/2014
  • Issued: 07/03/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. One or more computer-readable storage devices storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, configure a computer to perform acts comprising:

  • receiving, from an account holder of an account with a remote service, identification of a plurality of entities as trustees for an account recovery process for recovering access to the account with the remote service;

    subsequent to the initiation of the account recovery process, transmitting, by one or more devices associated with the remote service, a respective account recovery code to each of the plurality of entities identified as trustees for the account, the respective account recovery codes being distinct from one another;

    receiving, by the one or more devices associated with the remote service, at least a predefined number of distinct account recovery codes from the account holder over a network;

    verifying, by the one or more devices associated with the remote service, the account holder at least in part in response to the receiving of at least the predefined number of distinct account recovery codes of the account recovery codes from the account holder; and

    providing account recovery information to the account holder based at least in part on the verifying the account holder.

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