US 11,722,489 B2
Management of shared authentication credentials
Anuj Kumar Garg, Ghaiziabad (IN); Kuntal Dey, Rampurhat (IN); Jeffrey Robert Stangeland, Brno (CZ); Sanju Soman Chathoth Kurungara, Bangalore (IN); and Himanshu Gaur, Delhi (IN)
Assigned to KYNDRYL, INC., New York, NY (US)
Filed by KYNDRYL, INC., New York, NY (US)
Filed on Dec. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/127,301.
Prior Publication US 2022/0200988 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 21/45 (2013.01)
CPC H04L 63/0876 (2013.01) [H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); H04L 63/126 (2013.01); H04L 63/168 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
updating, by one or more processors, usage information associated with an authentication credential with a media access control address (MAC address) that corresponds to a respective computing device in response to the respective computing device checking out the authentication credential;
receiving, by one or more processors, a login request that includes the authentication credential from a computing device;
fetching, by one or more processors, a MAC address of the computing device that sent the login request;
validating, by one or more processors, the authentication credential and the MAC address;
maintaining, by one or more processors, the MAC address that corresponds to the respective computing device associated with the authentication credential, after the respective computing device checks in the authentication credential, until a second computing device checks out the authentication credential; and
updating, by one or more processors, the usage information associated with the authentication credential with a second MAC address that corresponds to the second computing device, in response to the second computing device checking out the authentication credential.