Patent ID: 8327421
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for attributing a plurality of user-authentication credentials to an individual, the method comprising: receiving, at an identity server machine, a plurality of user-authentication credentials, each being different from the others and associated with a different computer application; inferring association, at the identity server machine, between different ones of the plurality of user-authentication credentials and a single individual, based on consistencies among the associated authentication credentials and observed application usage patterns attributed to each user-authentication credential, the observed application usage comprising one or more of logging into an operating system, logging into an application, using one or more functions within an application and navigating to one or more screens within an application; creating, at the identity server machine, an identity signature for the single individual based on the different user-authentication credentials associated with the single individual; and identifying, at the identity server machine, the individual based on the identity signature.