Patent ID: 11943212
Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
generating a plurality of authentication pathways for an authentication profile for a communication device of a user based on user data detectable by a communication device of a user via a plurality of device components for the communication device;
determining, for each of the plurality of authentication pathways, a set of the plurality of device components necessary to carry out an authentication;
receiving an authentication request via the communication device;
determining, at a time of the authentication request, a set of usable components from the plurality of device components for the authentication request, wherein the set of usable components comprise a subset of the plurality of device components that are usable for detecting the user data at the time of the authentication request;
identifying, based on iterating through the set of usable components from the plurality of device components for a detection of the user data at the time of the authentication request, one or more available authentication pathways from the plurality of pathways available to be used for the authentication request; and
selecting an authentication pathway from the one or more available authentication pathways based on a predetermined metric.