Efficient, Peer-to-Peer Captcha-Based Verification and Demand Management for Online Services

• US 20090260068A1
• Filed: 04/14/2008
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Subbian, Karthik, Kannan, Ramakrishnan, Wynter, Laura, Hariharan, Rajaraman
• Granted Patent: US 8,315,882 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/7
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/32 including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system or for message authentication, e.g. authorization, entity authentication, data integrity or data verification, non-repudiation, key authentication or verification of credentials

Abstract

A system and method configured that may allow performing a human-computer verification including crediting a verified task from a first user to a second user. In additional embodiments, may allow the user to perform a computer operation that require human-computer verification based upon an amount of credits that the user has been provided.

Claims

5-1. The method of claim 1, wherein the verification comprises a human authentification.

15. A human verification system, comprising a verification management system configured to credit a verified task from a first user to a second user.

16. The human verification system of claim 15, further comprising:

a user profile storage unit provided to store user data and a user verification score; and

a computer activity unit configured to perform the computer task requested by either one of the first user or the second user.

17. The human verification system of claim 15, further comprising a server associated with a plurality of users,

wherein the verification management system is configured to share the human verification test results among a plurality of users to redeem the first user'"'"'s verification score with the second user'"'"'s current completion of the human verification test to allow the first user to access the requested computer activity.

18. The human verification system of claim 15, further comprising:

a server configured to store the verification management system; and

a client unit associated with the server and being configured to provide access to the verification management system to the user.

19. The human verification system of claim 15, wherein the verification management system is configured to compute a computer activity value associated with the requested computer activity and to deduct that value from the user verification score.

20. A computer-readable medium tangibly encoded with a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a computerized method for crediting a verified task from a first user to a second user.