Patent ID: 8902043

Claim:
A method of mitigating confirmational bias during authentication, the method comprising: receiving from an input device a request for authentication of a user, the request including user identification information and access point information; comparing the user identification information with user identification records in an authentication database; upon the user identification information matching a user identification record in the authentication database: retrieving a set of secondary records of secondary information of the user from a set of secondary sources; for each record of the set of secondary records calculating a score, the score indicative of a difference between the access point information and secondary information of the record; aggregating the score of each record of the set of secondary records to form an aggregated score; comparing the aggregated score to a predetermined value; and initiating secondary authentication upon the aggregate score exceeding the predetermined value; and upon the user identification information not matching a user identification records in the authentication database, denying authentication of the user.