Patent ID: 8763101
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a first server device and from a user device, information associated with a request to receive a service from a second server device, the information including a unique identifier, extracting, by the first server device, the unique identifier from the information associated with the request; retrieving, from a memory associated with the first server device, the identifier, associated with the user device, that corresponds to the unique identifier; performing, by the first server device, a first authentication operation to determine whether the identifier is trusted; determining, by the first server device, that the identifier is trusted based on performing the first authentication operation; determining, by the first server device and based on determining that the identifier is trusted, that the user device is a particular type of user device via which one or more other user devices, associated with two or more users, communicate; determining, by the first server device, to perform a second authentication operation to authenticate a user, of the user device, based on determining that the user device is the particular type of user device; transmitting, by the first server device, a request for user information to authenticate the user, based on determining to perform the second authentication operation; receiving, by the first server device, a response to the request for user information; determining, by the first server device, that the user is authenticated based on the response; and transmitting, by the first server device and to the second server device, a notification that indicates that the user is authenticated based on determining that the user is authenticated,