Patents by Inventor Peter W. Jenkins

Peter W. Jenkins has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Authentication management
    Patent number: 10097527
    Abstract: A method of managing authentication during a user session comprises the steps of operating a user session for a specific user, maintaining a user authentication level for the user session, monitoring one or more factors relating to the user's activity, applying one or more rules to the monitored factors, detecting that a rule has indicated the user's current authentication level is too high, and lowering the user's authentication level, without ending the user's session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin C. Brown, Peter W. Jenkins, Stephen D. Pipes, Larissa C. Romualdo Suzuki
  • Authentication Management
    Publication number: 20160065554
    Abstract: A method of managing authentication during a user session comprises the steps of operating a user session for a specific user, maintaining a user authentication level for the user session, monitoring one or more factors relating to the user's activity, applying one or more rules to the monitored factors, detecting that a rule has indicated the user's current authentication level is too high, and lowering the user's authentication level, without ending the user's session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Kevin C. Brown, Peter W. Jenkins, Stephen D. Pipes, Larissa C. Romualdo Suzuki