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Adaptive secondary authentication criteria based on account data

  • US 9,530,133 B2
  • Filed: 04/13/2015
  • Issued: 12/27/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of generating secondary authentication questions, the method comprising:

  • accessing, via one or more hardware processors, an activities history of an account associated with an online store, wherein the online store includes digital media including at least one of music, movies, books or apps;

    deriving a set of questions based on the activities history of an at least quasi-unique identifier associated with the account;

    deriving a set of questions based on a presumed media genre preference associated with the at least quasi-unique identifier;

    filtering questions from one or more sets of questions based on privacy settings;

    transmitting the one or more questions to a device to authenticate the at least quasi-unique identifier associated with the account;

    receiving a set of question metrics gathered during authentication, the set of question metrics related to a frequency in which a type of question is asked or answered;

    submitting the set of question metrics to a metrics database, wherein the set of question metrics includes a frequency in which certain type of question is filtered by privacy settings and the frequency in which a certain type of question is asked;

    receiving an update to a quality score for one or more questions based on the set of question metrics; and

    adjusting the one or more questions based on the update to the quality score.

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