Patent ID: 9621591
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A service provision apparatus for providing a service for a user via a network, the apparatus comprising: a memory; and a processor in communication with the memory, the processor configured to obtain instructions from the memory that cause the processor to: obtain at least one piece of reliability information representing reliability of at least one authentication apparatus performing authentication on the user from the at least one authentication apparatus or an external information provision apparatus; set an evaluation policy for evaluating the reliability of the at least one authentication apparatus, wherein the evaluation policy is set to include a weight for each of a plurality of attributes of the at least one piece of reliability information; determine whether the authentication made by the at least one authentication apparatus is to be relied on, on the basis of at least one evaluation result obtained by evaluating whether the at least one authentication apparatus is to be relied on, on the basis of the evaluation policy, wherein the at least one evaluation result is generated by evaluating the at least one piece of reliability information by weighing, on the basis of the evaluation policy, the plurality of attributes for the at least one authentication apparatus; and determine that the service is to be provided for the user, in response to a determination that the authentication made by the at least one authentication apparatus is to be relied on and information that the user has been authenticated by the at least one authentication apparatus.