Patent ID: 9473511
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for authentication, the method comprising: identifying, by one or more computer processors, a mobile computing device attempting to access content; receiving, by one or more computer processors, a username and a password from the mobile computing device; identifying, by one or more computer processors, a first geopolygon that is associated with the content, wherein the first geopolygon defines a first set of longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates, and wherein the mobile computing device is permitted to access the content from within the first geopolygon; determining, by one or more computer processors, longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of a location from which the mobile computing device attempted to access the content; converting, by one or more computer processors, the longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of the location from which the mobile computing device attempted to access the content into an extensible access control markup language; and in response to determining, by one or more computer processors, (i) that the received username and the received password match authentication information that is associated with the mobile computing device, (ii) that the longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of the location from which the mobile computing device attempted to access the content are not within the first geopolygon, and (iii) that the mobile computing device has made a threshold count of total attempts to access the content: