Patent ID: 9729930
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, over a network using a processing device at a service provider, a request to access a service, wherein the request contains user information associated with a user; tracking, using the processing device, the user information, a plurality of times the user information was used to access the service, and a location from which the user information was used to access the service; determining, using the processing device, a previous time the user information was used to access the service from a geographic location associated with an account of a subscriber; determining, using the processing device, that the user has established a minimum periodic presence in the geographic location in response to a determination that a number of accesses using the user information does not exceed a predetermined number of requests, determined by the service provider, outside the geographic location after the previous time; flagging, using the processing device, a user identifier from the user information as being potentially unauthorized if it is not determined that the user has established the minimum periodic presence in the geographic location associated with the account of the subscriber; and soliciting, over the network using the processing device, additional information from the user in response to flagging the user identifier.