Patent ID: 8213583
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying, by a network device associated with a plurality of companies and based on a telephone call received from a user, information associated with the user, where the information is stored in a memory associated with the network device; authenticating, by the network device and based on the identified information, the user; determining, by the network device and in response to authenticating the user, that the user is associated with two or more of the plurality of companies, where the network device determines that the user is associated with the two or more of the plurality of companies based on the identified information; generating, by the network device, an access number for providing access to one or more restricted resources associated with at least one of the two or more of the plurality of companies; and sending the access number to the user and to an authentication server associated with the at least one of the two or more of the plurality of companies in order to regulate access to a restricted resource, of the one or more restricted resources, based on the access number sent to the user and the access number sent to the authentication server.