Patent ID: 9094391
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method in an electronic computer network, comprising: electronically maintaining a plurality of different applications associated with a plurality of different user accounts in a database of computer readable memory connected to an electronic computer network; the plurality of different applications forming an electronic federated group having a computer readable security token of the federated group associated therewith; the security token having a first level of authentication stored therein for access to the federated group, the security token including a federation identification attribute for identification of the federation group, and a geo-location attribute; at a computer processor server, electronically receiving a request for sign-on to at least one of the different applications in the federated group associated with at least one user account, wherein the request for sign-on originates from a mobile computing device connected to the electronic computer network; responsive to the request for the sign-on at a computer processor server, electronically determining a level of authentication associated with the least one user account; electronically validating the level of authentication with the first level of authentication of the security token associated with the federated group; electronically transmitting the security token to a computer readable memory of the mobile computing device; electronically receiving a request to change the first level of authentication; and electronically modifying at the first level of authentication associated with the security token stored in the computer readable memory of the mobile computing device for the federated group to a second level of authentication and electronically storing the second level of authentication in the security token for the federated group thereby permitting a subsequent request for sign-on by another user account on another computing device to be validated with the second level of authentication, the first level of authentication being different from the second level of authentication.