US 11,750,586 B2
Techniques to pre-authenticate a user identity for an electronic account
Abdelkader M'Hamed Benkreira, Washington, DC (US); Joshua Edwards, Philadelphia, PA (US); and Adam Vukich, Alexandria, VA (US)
Assigned to Capital One Services, LLC, McLean, VA (US)
Filed by Capital One Services, LLC, McLean, VA (US)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/96,453.
Application 17/096,453 is a continuation of application No. 16/515,606, filed on Jul. 18, 2019, granted, now 10,873,571.
Prior Publication US 2021/0067499 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04W 12/062 (2021.01)
CPC H04L 63/08 (2013.01) [H04L 9/32 (2013.01); H04L 63/0815 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04L 2463/082 (2013.01); H04W 12/062 (2021.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a processing circuit; and
logic stored in computer memory and executed on the processing circuit, the logic operative to cause the processing circuit to:
monitor browser activity of a browser application and identify authentication events in the browser activity, the authentication events corresponding to at least one third-party digital property, the authentication events comprising authentication information provided to access the at least one third-party digital property;
communicate to an external system the authentication information associated with the identified authentication events, the external system comprising a first-party digital property;
identify a request to access an account associated with the first-party digital property; and
bypass a step in a multi-factor authentication sequence for the account to the first-party digital property based upon at least a piece of the authentication information for the third-party digital property matching information to satisfy at least one factor of the multi-factor authentication sequence for the first-party digital property.