Patent ID: 8079079

Claim:
A system that facilitates authentication, the system comprising: a processor; memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions to implement the system, including: a sensing component that concurrently receives a plurality of sensed inputs and outputs sensing data, wherein the sensed inputs include a current context of data access and at least one authentication input for authentication; an artificial intelligence component that uses a pattern matching classifier to select the use of a plurality of authentication input subsystems based on the current context, and receives user preference for using at least one of the plurality of authentication input subsystems for authentication, wherein the artificial intelligence component selects the use of the at least one different authentication input subsystem for authentication by employing the pattern matching classifier to perform at least one of probabilistic or statistical-based inference analysis of one or more contexts sensed by the sensing component that are different from the current context; and an authentication component that performs an authentication process employing the sensing data, and determines whether to enable access to a full set of device features or a subset of the device features based on the current context of data access when the sensing data has resulted in successful authentication.