Commentary by Mark Wahl, CISA
US Patent 7,747,645: System and method for calendar-based anomalous access detection (20100629)
On June 29, 2010, the US Patent Office published patent 7,747,645, which documents my invention of a system and method for calendar-based anomalous access detection.
An access control system is augmented with the ability to categorize access requests as anomalous, by correlating the time and location of the requesting user with information provided by the requesting user's calendar entries. These entries provide the dates and times that a user is anticipated to be located in a particular geographic region.