Secured communication via location awareness
First Claim
1. A method for collecting information about a location of a calling device to verify a calling party in response to a request for establishing a digital communication channel, comprising:
- receiving a first set of location information from a calling device;
obtaining a second set of location information that is necessary for verifying the first set of location information;
evaluating the first set of location information by comparing it with the second set of location information in order to authenticate an identity of the calling party; and
wherein the contextual information is exchanged during a connection set-up phase of a digital communication channel.
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Abstract
A method and system for collecting and verifying the location information of a calling party and a device of the calling party is provided. More specifically, a method and system is provided for determining whether the identity of the calling party can be confirmed, via evaluating location information, with an acceptable degree of certainty. The location information may be provided by the calling party or obtained from various sources over a digital communication channel. Some of the provided location information which can be accidentally or intentionally altered is identified and evaluated to determine its accuracy as part of the verification process of the caller'"'"'s identity.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for collecting information about a location of a calling device to verify a calling party in response to a request for establishing a digital communication channel, comprising:
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receiving a first set of location information from a calling device; obtaining a second set of location information that is necessary for verifying the first set of location information; evaluating the first set of location information by comparing it with the second set of location information in order to authenticate an identity of the calling party; and wherein the contextual information is exchanged during a connection set-up phase of a digital communication channel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for confirming a caller'"'"'s identity via location information exchanged over a digital voice conversation, the computer-executable components comprising:
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a communication interface component configured for receiving identity information from a caller as part of a digital voice conversation; an information confirming component configured for identifying location information necessary to verify the identity information and requesting the identified location information from the caller; and wherein after the communication interface component obtains the identified location information from the caller over the digital voice conversation, the information confirming component confirms the identity information by verifying the identified location information obtained from the caller. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for verifying user information about VoIP clients while the VoIP clients are engaged in a digital voice conversation, comprising:
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receiving user information from a VoIP client, the user information relating to a location of the VoIP client; obtaining previously verified location information about the VoIP client; verifying whether the received user information is consistent with previously verified location information of the VoIP client; generating output including a result of verification of the received user information; and presenting a first portion of the output along with a second portion of the output, wherein the first portion of the output represents part of the user information which is verified and the second portion of the output represents part of the user information which fails to be verified. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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