Establishing historical usage-based hardware trust

摘要

Establishing trust according to historical usage of selected hardware involves providing a usage history for a selected client device; and extending trust to a selected user based on the user's usage history of the client device. The usage history is embodied as signed statements issued by a third party or an authentication server. The issued statement is stored either on the client device, or on an authentication server. The usage history is updated every time a user is authenticated from the selected client device. By combining the usage history with conventional user authentication, an enhanced trust level is readily established. The enhanced, hardware-based trust provided by logging on from a trusted client may eliminate the necessity of requiring secondary authentication for e-commerce and financial services transactions, and may also be used to facilitate password recovery and conflict resolution in the case of stolen passwords.

主权项

1. A server associated with a service provider for establishing trust across a network, the server comprising:
at least one processor; and one or more computer-readable storage memory devices embodying processor-executable instructions which, responsive to execution by the at least one processor, are configured to enable the server to:
track, using the server, information unique to each log-in for a selected user from one or more devices associated with the selected user; andextend, using the server, an increase in trust to the selected user at a trust level based, at least in part, on any of frequency of said log-ins and number or number of the tracked log-ins from the one or more devices associated with the selected user.