Patent ID: 8539242

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving one or more user-centric authentication preferences in response to a user-centric query of a user of a voice-capable system, the user-centric query providing one or more questions associated with one or more categories of authentication questions; determining whether at least some of the one or more categories of authentication questions meet a diversity standard for an authentication requirement; preparing the one or more categories of authentication questions based on at least one of the one or more user-centric authentication preferences; generating one or more questions for a future authentication session, wherein the generating one or more questions for the future authentication session includes: (a) receiving from the user the one or more user-centric authentication preferences in the form of a prioritization of the one or more categories of authentication questions, including: (1) notifying the user when the prioritization of the one or more categories of authentication questions results in an invalid authentication configuration, including: (A) cautioning the user when the prioritization of the one or more categories results in excluding a category; and (B) providing the user with an option to at least one of reinstate an excluded category or add a category; and wherein at least one of the receiving, the determining, the preparing, or the generating is implemented using one or more processing devices.