Patent ID: 8205790

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of providing customer-managed, device-based authentication of access to an on-line service, the method comprising: determining one or more customer devices that have previously connected or that are currently connected; updating a list of one or more customer devices in response to determining one or more customer devices that have previously connected or that are currently connected; presenting a device management interface comprising the list of one or more customer devices, at least one of the customer devices being a previously connected device or a currently connected device, the device management interface comprising: description of each of the customer devices on the list, the description comprising device parameters comprising at least one of an operating system or a processor type so that the customer may recognize which customer device from the list corresponds with the description; receiving customer input regarding one or more authentication preferences of at least one of the one or more customer devices; storing device parameters and, based on the customer input, device preferences related to one or more of the customer devices selectably accessing an account connected with the on-line service; collecting one or more device parameters from a device requesting access to the on-line service; comparing the one or more device parameters of the device requesting access with the stored device parameters related to the one or more customer devices; and authenticating the device requesting access to the account based at least in part on the comparison and the stored device preferences.