ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,581, issued on May 20, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Multi-level authentication security service" was invented by Billy Gene McCracken Jr. (Lenexa, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating a user by a wireless service provider security service. The method comprises receiving a multi-level authentication request from a security client, performing first-layer authentication including determining whether values of user identifier (ID) and password from the security client match user ID and password values stored by the network application and associated with the user's network su...