Patent ID: 9172719
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing activity of an electronic account comprising: accessing a corpus of account behavior associated with the electronic account stored at a first memory location, and a corpus of unauthorized user behavior associated with a history of unauthorized access stored at a second memory location, wherein the history of unauthorized access is selected from the group consisting of: prior unauthorized access to the electronic account, prior unauthorized access to other electronic accounts, and a combination thereof; generating a first statistic from the corpus of account behavior and a second statistic from the corpus of unauthorized user behavior; detecting a first activity on the electronic account; discovering mistrust associated with the detected first activity, including comparing the detected first activity to a statistic selected from the group consisting of: the first statistic and the second statistic; producing a mistrust notification in response to discovered mistrust; and converting the electronic account into an intermediate trust state based on the produced mistrust notification.