Spriv LLC is pleased to announce the grant of US Patent No. 9,727,867.
This velocity, distance and speed measuring patent, together with our other existing US and Australian patents, describes ways to utilize mobile phone location to authenticate the user's identity.
What the patent covers
Patent No. 9,727,867 describes ways of checking the geographic location and time of a wireless terminal associated with a user. When a second transaction is attempted, the geographic location and time of that second attempted transaction is determined and based on a comparison of the distance between the two locations and the speed required to travel between them if the speed is above a predetermined value, an alert is communicated to the predetermined device.
The grant of that patent provides further recognition of the quality of the innovation being carried out by Spriv's team.
About Spriv's Adaptive MFA
Most users understand that MFA is a very good thing, but they won't tolerate MFA intervention every time they log in. This is Spriv's sweet spot.
If a user chooses to allow a transaction done via a specific computer and the user's cell phone identifies a particular environmental identifier, all future transactions will be automated as long as the same environmental identifier via the same cell phone and the same specific computer is used with the same username.
With Spriv's technology you don't need to train your users to press "allow" every time they log in. When users are trained to press allow every time they get authentication messages to their phone, they may press allow for a fraudster access.