Patent ID: 8607314

Claim:
A method comprising: transmitting, by a first computer system for facilitating authentication of a user, authentication information of said user from said first computer system to a class-based second computer system, wherein said authentication information includes at least one of environment information and facility housing information related to said first computer system, wherein said environment information comprises at least one of characteristics of a process used to initially associate user credentials to said user, characteristics of a process used to verify an identity of said user, and characteristics of a methodology by which a secret is secured, and wherein said facility housing information comprises at least one of characteristics of physical controls of a facility housing said first computer and characteristics of procedural security controls of said first computer, and wherein said class-based second computer system provides services in response to said authentication information substantially complying with a predetermined class stored at said class-based second computer system, and wherein said predetermined class is defined by a service provider.