Secure trust-scored distributed multimedia collaboration session

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9560076-B2
Application number	US-201414219662-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 19, 2014
Priority date	Mar 19, 2014
Publication date	Jan 31, 2017
Grant date	Jan 31, 2017

Abstract

A device may receive a request for a collaboration session. The device may authenticate a user for the collaboration session. The device may generate a trust-score associated with the collaboration session based on authenticating the user. The trust-score may be associated with a security level for the collaboration session. The security level may be associated with one or more capabilities of the collaboration session. The device may assign the user to a session role associated with the collaboration session. The session role may be associated with the one or more capabilities of the collaboration session. The device may provide information associated with the collaboration session based on the security level for the collaboration session and/or the session role assigned to the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors, at least partially implemented in hardware and connected to the one or more memories, to:
receive a first request for a collaboration session from a first user associated with a first user device;
authenticate the first user for the collaboration session based on the first request;
access information regarding a network associated with the first user device,
the information regarding the network identifying one or more properties associated with the network;

perform a network analysis on the information regarding the network;
generate a first trust-score, associated with the collaboration session, based on authenticating the first user and based on the network analysis of the information regarding the network,
the first trust-score being associated with a first security level for the collaboration session,
the first security level being associated with one or more capabilities of the collaboration session;

assign the first user to a session role, associated with the collaboration session, based on the first trust-score,
the session role being associated with the one or more capabilities of the collaboration session,
the one or more capabilities identifying one or more actions that the first user is permitted to take in association with the collaboration session;

receive a second request for the collaboration session;
authenticate a second user for the collaboration session based on the second request;
generate a second trust-score, associated with the collaboration session, based on authenticating the second user,
the second trust-score being associated with a second security level for the collaboration session,
the second security level being associated with the one or more capabilities of the collaboration session,
the second security level being different than the first security level;

provide, to the first user device associated with the first user, first information associated with the collaboration session, based on the first security level for the collaboration session;
provide, to a second user device associated with the second user, second information associated with the collaboration session, based on the second security level for the collaboration session,
the second information being different than the first information based on the second security level being different than the first security level;

monitor, during the collaboration session, the network to detect an adjustment to the one or more properties associated with the network;
determine, during the collaboration session, a new first trust-score based on detecting the adjustment;
change, during the collaboration session, the first security level for the collaboration session based on the new first trust-score; and
reconfigure the collaboration session based on the change to the first security level.

2. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors are further to:
determine that the first request indicates that the collaboration session is to be established; and
establish the collaboration session utilizing the first security level based on determining that the first request indicates that the collaboration session is to be established.

3. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors are further to:
receive information regarding an environment associated with the first user device;
determine the first trust-score based on the information regarding the environment associated with the first user device;
monitor the environment associated with the first user device to detect an adjustment to the environment; and
change the first security level for the collaboration session based on detecting the adjustment to the environment.

4. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors are further to:
receive identification information associated with the first user; and
generate the first trust-score based on the identification information associated with the first user.

5. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors are further to:
detect an adjustment to a trust-score factor associated with the first trust-score; and
determine the new first trust-score based on detecting the adjustment to the trust-score factor.

6. The device of claim 1 , where the one or more processors are further to:
receive a request indicating the session role;
determine that the first user is authorized to be assigned to the session role based on receiving the request indicating the session role; and
assign the first user to the session role based on determining that the first user is authorized to be assigned to the session role.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive a first request, from a first user associated with a first user device, to be connected to a multimedia collaboration session,
the multimedia collaboration session being associated with a first security level;

authenticate the first user for the multimedia collaboration session based on the first request;
access information regarding a network associated with the first user device;
the information regarding the network identifying one or more properties associated with the network;

perform a network analysis on the information regarding the network;
generate a first trust-score associated with the first user device based on authenticating the first user for the multimedia collaboration session and based on the network analysis of the information regarding the network;
selectively change a security level for the multimedia collaboration session based on the first trust-score and one or more second trust-scores associated with one or more second user devices,
the one or more second user devices being connected to the multimedia collaboration session,
the one or more second trust-scores being associated with a second security level for the multimedia collaboration session,
the second security level being different than the first security level;

assign the first user device to a particular session role, associated with the multimedia collaboration session, based on the first trust-score;
provide, to the first user device, first information associated with the multimedia collaboration session, based on the first security level and the particular session role;
provide, to the one or more second user devices, second information associated with the multimedia collaboration session, based on the second security level for the multimedia collaboration session,
the second information being different than the first information based on the second security level being different than the first security level;

monitor, during the multimedia collaboration session, the network to detect an adjustment to the one or more properties associated with the network;
determine, during the multimedia collaboration session, a new first trust-score based on detecting the adjustment;
change, during the multimedia collaboration session, the first security level for the multimedia collaboration session based on the new first trust-score; and
reconfigure the multimedia collaboration session based on the change to the first security level.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 7 , where the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:
receive a request for a particular adjustment to the multimedia collaboration session;
identify a set of adjustments associated with the particular session role,

Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Schultz Paul T
• Sartini Robert A
• Ni James J

Classifications

• H04L63/08 Primary

  for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32) · CPC title

• H04L51/12

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F21/60

  Protecting data · CPC title

• H04L12/1822

  Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission · CPC title

• H04L63/04

  for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks · CPC title