US 12,393,669 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
Kiminobu Nishimura, Kanagawa (JP); Masanori Katsu, Tokyo (JP); and Taizo Shirai, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/431,993
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/005027
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 18, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/175116, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-031834 (JP), filed on Feb. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147611 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 21/45 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/45 (2013.01) [G06F 2221/2113 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:
controlling sharing of authentication information of a user among a plurality of information processing apparatuses attached to the same user, the information processing apparatuses having different authentication levels; and
outputting information prompting a predetermined behavior of the user related to the sharing of the authentication information,
wherein the sharing of the authentication information of the user is controlled based on an authentication level of each information processing apparatus and detected behavior of the user including the prompted predetermined behavior detected by each information processing apparatus, and
wherein the predetermined behavior controls the sharing of the authentication information of the user by causing the authentication information of an information processing apparatus having a strong authentication level among the plurality of information processing apparatuses to be shared with an information processing apparatus having a weak authentication level among the plurality of information processing apparatuses.