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PERSONAL ASSISTANT AUTHENTICATION

  • US 20160262017A1
  • Filed: 03/04/2015
  • Published: 09/08/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2015
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A mobile computing device comprising a computer memory and a computer processor that is configured to allow a personal digital assistant to perform tasks with an online service upon validating a user instruction, the mobile computing device comprising:

  • the personal digital assistant that is a computer program stored on the computer memory having code configured to;

    (1) receive an audible request for the personal digital assistant to perform a task through the online service, the online service accessible to the mobile computing device through a network connection;

    (2) determine that a security-challenge authentication procedure required for the personal digital assistant to perform the task through the online service requires a user to respond to a user interrogation to authenticate the user;

    (3) generate the user interrogation which comprises a question having a correct answer by retrieving a fact from a set of semantic knowledge associated with the user and forming the question where the fact is the correct answer to the question;

    (4) provide the question to the user;

    (5) receive a response to the question from the user;

    (6) determine that the security-challenge authentication procedure is satisfied because the response is the correct answer; and

    (7) instruct the online service to perform the task by communicating security credentials to the online service that confirm that the security-challenge authentication procedure has been satisfied and providing instructions about the task to the online service.

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