Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic token renewal for device authentication
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Application No.: US14629372Application Date: 2015-02-23
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Publication No.: US09608974B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Maximilian Francis Barrows , Paul Francis Dean Ferraro , Jason George McHugh , Abraham Martin Passaglia , Andrew Jay Roths , Eric Allan Shell
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NV Reno
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NV Reno
- Agency: Polsinelli LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/04
- IPC: G06F7/04 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
Approaches are described for automatically generating new security credentials, such as security tokens, which can involve automatically re-authenticating a user (or client device) using a previous security token issued to that user (or device). The re-authentication can happen without any knowledge and/or action on the part of the user. The re-authentication mechanism can invalidate and/or keep track of the previous security token, such that when a subsequent request is received that includes the previous security token, the new security token can be invalidated, and the user caused to re-authenticate, as receiving more than one request with the previous security token can be indicative that the user's token might have been stolen.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150172271A1 AUTOMATIC TOKEN RENEWAL FOR DEVICE AUTHENTICATION Public/Granted day:2015-06-18
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