Patent ID: 8566911

Claim:
A method of obtaining authorization for a requestor to access a service comprising: receiving a requestor request for access to a service; sending an authorization request to one or more mobile devices associated with one or more authorizers on an approval list; receiving an authorization response from the one or more mobile devices associated with the one or more authorizers on the approval list; determining from the authorization response that a predetermined level of authorization is received; when the predetermined level of authorization is received, authorizing access to the service, wherein the predetermined level of authorization is received when a percentage of positive authorization responses from mobile devices on the approval list have been received, and broadcasting an authorization notification to the mobile devices on the approval list; wherein a plurality of mobile devices are on the approval list and wherein sending the authorization request further comprises: sending the authorization request to an initial subset of the plurality of mobile devices; and when an insufficient response is received from the initial subset, sending the authorization request to a second subset of the plurality of mobile devices.