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. One or more computer-readable storage memory devices comprising processor-executable instructions which, responsive to execution by at least one processor, are configured to:
write a token into any of a memory or a disk that is associated with a selected client device of one or more client devices; confirm that the token exists on the selected client device during each log in of the selected client device through one or more access points across a network; and extend an increase in trust to the selected client device at a level that is based, at least in part, on at least one of:
a frequency of the confirmed log ins; ora number of the confirmed log ins.