Patent ID: 11954189

Abstract:
A method and system of authenticating a user logon builds a user logon profile with a plurality of user logon features gathered during at least one successful attempted user logon, determines a logon feature novelty score for each feature, receives a user logon request for authentication and extracts current user logon features, retrieves corresponding logon feature novelty scores, determines a first distance function score for the corresponding logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, builds a failed logon attempt database, determines a failed logon feature novelty score, extracts the failed logon feature novelty scores corresponding to current user logon features, determines a second distance function score for the corresponding failed logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, and determining to one of allow or deny the user logon request based on at least one of the first distance function score and the second distance function score.