Prompting login account

• US 10,257,187 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2017
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Company Limited (Ant Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Ji, Lijuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Kabir, Jahangir
• Application Number:
  US15/624,179
• Publication Number:
  US 20170289131A1
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 726 2- 4, 726 7, 726 27- 28, 726 30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/41 where a single sign-on provides access to a plurality of computers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/45 Structures or tools for the administration of authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2131 Lost password, e.g. recovery of lost or forgotten passwords
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G09C 1/00 Apparatus or methods whereby a given sequence of signs, e.g. an intelligible text, is transformed into an unintelligible sequence of signs by transposing the signs or groups of signs or by replacing them by others according to a predetermined system cryptographic typewriters G09C3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A login request initiated by a user at a current page is received. Whether there exists an account record matched with a login account name and login password combination in the login request is searched from an account table of the current page. If a result is positive, the user is allowed to log in. If a result is not positive, a preconfigured account name collection corresponding to the login account name is acquired. The account name collection includes login account names of the user'"'"'s registered accounts in a plurality of member systems. A login account name in a member system to which the current page belongs is searched from the account name collection, and the found login account name is provided to the user. The techniques of the present disclosure prompts a correct login account name to the user, especially when there are many user login account names, thereby reducing memory burden of the user and assisting the user in implementing a quick login under multi-account management.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating an account name collection at least by;

adding information of an account of the user into the account name collection, the account being different from one or more accounts of the user that are already included in the account name collection, and

searching for an additional account of the user to add into the account name collection based at least in part on the added information of the account of the user;

receiving a request for obtaining a first account name of a user associated with a first member system, the request including at least a second account name provided by the user, the second account name being an account name registered in a second member system which is different from the first member system;

searching the account name collection associated with the user based at least in part on the second account name, the account name collection including a plurality of account names registered in a plurality of member systems including the first member system and the second member system, a member system of the plurality of member systems comprising a platform associated with a website, a communications platform, a platform associated with a social network, or a platform associated with a forum under a multi-account management system; and

retrieving the first account name that is associated with the first member system for presentation to the user; and

returning the retrieved account name to the user at least by;

providing a prompt including the first account name to the user on a current page of an account login associated with the first member system, or

sending a message including the first account name to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising returning another account name registered in another member system that is different from the first member system for presentation to the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein searching the account name collection associated with the user based at least in part on the second account name comprises:

determining a search area corresponding to the second account name according to an index; and

matching only records corresponding to the search area.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the account name collection associated with the user is generated prior to receiving the request for obtaining the first account name of the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the account name collection further comprises adding information of a plurality of accounts of the user that are registered in the plurality of member systems into the account name collection.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein adding the information of the plurality of accounts of the user comprises determining at least one portion of the plurality of accounts of the user based at least in part on one or more account binding relationships that exist among the at least one portion of the plurality of accounts of the user in the at least two of the first member system and one or more other member systems.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein adding the information of the plurality of accounts of the user comprises determining at least one portion of the plurality of accounts of the user that do not have an account binding relationship.

8. One or more computer-readable media storing executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

generating an account name collection at least by;

adding information of an account of the user into the account name collection, the account being different from one or more accounts of the user that are already included in the account name collection, and

searching for an additional account of the user to add into the account name collection based at least in part on the added information of the account of the user;

receiving a request for obtaining a first account name of a user associated with a first member system, the request including at least a second account name provided by the user, the second account name being an account name registered in a second member system which is different from the first member system;

searching the account name collection associated with the user based at least in part on the second account name, the account name collection including a plurality of account names registered in a plurality of member systems including the first member system and the second member system, a member system of the plurality of member systems comprising a platform associated with a website, a communications platform, a platform associated with a social network, or a platform associated with a forum under a multi-account management system; and

retrieving the first account name that is associated with the first member system for presentation to the user; and

returning the retrieved account name to the user at least by;

providing a prompt including the first account name to the user on a current page of an account login associated with the first member system, or

sending a message including the first account name to the user.

9. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 8, the acts further comprising returning another account name registered in another member system that is different from the first member system for presentation to the user.

10. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 8, wherein searching the account name collection associated with the user based at least in part on the second account name comprises:

determining a search area corresponding to the second account name according to an index; and

matching only records corresponding to the search area.

11. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 8, wherein the account name collection associated with the user is generated prior to receiving the request for obtaining the first account name of the user.

12. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 8, wherein generating the account name collection comprises adding information of a plurality of accounts of the user that are registered in the plurality of member systems into the account name collection.

13. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 8, wherein adding the information of the plurality of accounts of the user comprises determining at least one portion of the plurality of accounts of the user based at least in part on one or more account binding relationships that exist among the at least one portion of the plurality of accounts of the user in the at least two of the first member system and one or more other member systems.

14. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 8, wherein adding the information of the plurality of accounts of the user comprises determining at least one portion of the plurality of accounts of the user that do not have an account binding relationship.

15. An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;

memory;

a plurality of units stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors, the plurality of units being configured for;

generating an account name collection at least by;

adding information of an account of the user into the account name collection, the account being different from one or more accounts of the user that are already included in the account name collection, and

searching for an additional account of the user to add into the account name collection based at least in part on the added information of the account of the user;

receiving a request for obtaining a first account name of a user associated with a first member system, the request including at least a second account name provided by the user, the second account name being an account name registered in a second member system which is different from the first member system;

searching the account name collection associated with the user based at least in part on the second account name, the account name collection including a plurality of account names registered in a plurality of member systems including the first member system and the second member system, a member system of the plurality of member systems comprising a platform associated with a website, a communications platform, a platform associated with a social network, or a platform associated with a forum under a multi-account management system; and

retrieving the first account name that is associated with the first member system for presentation to the user; and

returning the retrieved account name to the user at least by;

providing a prompt including the first account name to the user on a current page of an account login associated with the first member system, or

sending a message including the first account name to the user.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein searching the account name collection associated with the user based at least in part on the first account name comprises:

determining a search area corresponding to the first account name according to an index; and

matching only records corresponding to the search area.