ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,663, issued on May 12.
"Factor health assessment and selection for login at an identity provider" was invented by Daniel Jeffrey Post (Pacifica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Users of an identity provider system may be authorized to use a variety of different types of factors from a variety of different factor providers. The identity provider system monitors and analyzes the "health" of the different possible factors available to a user, e.g., their availability relative to error rate. Using the results of the analysis, the identity provider can assess which factors are the most appropriate for a given user seeking authenticat...