APPARATUS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING USERS BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC

摘要

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for validating users based on fuzzy logic. An interface with security questions is presented to a user who requires authentication. A typical scenario is authentication for password recovery. The interface comprises security questions for the user to answer. The security questions may be limited or unlimited response questions. The answers to the security questions are either scored using fuzzy logic, which may attribute a value between “1” and “0” based on similarity with the original, correct answer; or scored using digital logic. When fuzzy logic scoring is used, a similarity score is computed for each answer. The similarity score is compared against a similarity score threshold to either grant or deny access. An average similarity score is also computed for all answers and compared against an average similarity score threshold to either grant or deny access.