Patent ID: 7694146

Claim:
A method for enhanced online account security for an account of a client, in the operation of a server communicating with a means for displaying information to the client, the method comprising the steps of: a) testing a login information against an account information of the account; b) fetching security daemon preferences for the account; c) writing a new session cookie on a browser of the client; d) testing if login notification is enabled; e) testing if an exclude IP address option is enabled; f) testing if a client IP address equals a daemon preference client IP address; g) splitting and formatting a client e-mail address list; h) for each e-mail address: i) testing the e-mail address for Short Message Service; ii) selecting and fetching one of: a full size template and a reduced size template depending on the outcome of step (i); iii) populating the selected template with an IP time stamp; iv) formatting the e-mail message for Short Message Service when the reduced size template is used; v) sending login notification e-mail message; and j) displaying the management screen.