US 12,443,696 B2
User authentication in a recall-memory enhancing manner
Brian Samuel Taylor, Highland Park, IL (US); Matthew Maxwell Murphy, Chicago, IL (US); and James Michael Faris, Chicago, IL (US)
Assigned to Thinkspan, LLC, Highland Park, IL (US)
Filed by Thinkspan, LLC, Highland Park, IL (US)
Filed on Mar. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/653,804.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/157,997, filed on Mar. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0284090 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 21/45 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/42 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/45 (2013.01) [G06F 21/316 (2013.01); G06F 21/42 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2131 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. At least one computer-readable storage medium, excluding transitory signals and carrying instructions to authenticate a user in a recall-memory enhancing manner, which, when executed by at least one data processor of a system, cause the system to:
receive from a user device associated with the user a request to associate a first geographic location with a password while the user device is located at the first geographic location;
subsequently receive from the user device associated with the user a request to access the password,
wherein accessing the password comprises resetting the password or viewing the password;
determine a time when the user device sends the request to access the password;
determine a second geographic location associated with the user device at the time when the user device sends the request to access the password; and
allow the user device to access the password only in response to a combination of both 1) determining that the second geographic location is less than a threshold distance away from the first geographic location, and 2) that the second location is included within a history of locations that the user has previously visited.