Adaptive secondary authentication criteria based on account data
First Claim
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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Abstract
An authentication challenge system for performing secondary authentication for an account associated with an online store is described. In one embodiment, the authentication challenge system includes a question generation engine, which can derive a series of questions based upon activity associated with a user account of an online store; a network interface, which can transport the series of one or more questions derived by the question generation engine to authenticate the user to the online store; a confidence engine, which can determine a required confidence level for a successful authentication, and can compute a confidence score of the user identity; and a quality engine, which can adjust the question generation engine and the confidence engine based upon an analysis of question and answer metrics across multiple accounts of the online store. The online store can include digital media, such as music, movies, books or applications for electronic computing devices.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of generating secondary authentication questions, the method comprising:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A data processing system comprising:
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one or more processors; and a non-transitory machine readable memory storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations to; accessing, via one or more 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; derive 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; filter questions from one or more sets of questions based on privacy settings associated with the account; transmit one or more adaptively determined authentication questions to a device to authenticate the at least quasi-unique identifier associated with the account; receive a set of question metrics gathered during authentication, submit the set of question metrics to a metrics database; receive an update to a quality score for one or more questions based on the set of question metrics, wherein the set of question metrics includes a frequency in which a certain type of question is filtered by privacy settings and the frequency in which a certain type of question is asked; and adjust the one or more questions based on the update to the quality score. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when performed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
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accessing 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; 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 a periodic update of 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 periodic update to the quality score. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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