Patent ID: 9331991
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of facilitating authenticating of a client device, the method comprising: providing, to a client device in a first communication session, a first authentication credential; providing, to the client device in a second communication session that is different from the first communication session, a second authentication credential, the second authentication credential being linked to the first authentication credential, wherein the second authentication credential includes a status indicator that indicates that the second authentication credential is inactive, and wherein the second authentication credential, including the status indicator that indicates that the second authentication credential is inactive, by itself, fails to authenticate the client device; receiving the first authentication credential and the second authentication credential from the client device in a third communication session that is different from the second communication session; determining that the first authentication credential and the second authentication credential are linked; and based on the determination that the first authentication credential and the second authentication credential are linked, enabling the second authentication credential to be used as a mechanism in authenticating the client device, wherein enabling the second authentication credential comprises setting the status indicator to indicate that the second authentication credential is active, wherein the second authentication credential, once identified as enabled by setting the status indicator to indicate that the second authentication credential is active, authenticates the client device without also presenting the first authentication credential.