Portable Identity Rating

• US 20120151560A1
• Filed: 12/08/2010
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Farsedakis, Lewis
• Original Assignee: Farsedakis, Lewis
• Inventors: Farsedakis, Lewis
• Granted Patent: US 8,464,358 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/33 using certificates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

Portable on-line identity verification technology includes, for example, portable widgets with an identity rating, and other on-line identification verification icons and identity rating scores.

Claims

1. An on-line identity rating or identity verification icon customized to an on-line user having a claimed identity, having portability,

the identity rating or identity verification icon being clickable by a counterparty to connect to an automated verification system to a record about the user, if and only if appearing on a website page that the user entered into the automated verification system as being authorized.

2. The on-line identity rating or identity verification icon of claim 1, wherein the certain claimed identity was evaluated by the automated verification system prior to the automated verification system having issued the on-line rating or identity verification icon.

3. The on-line identity rating or identity verification icon according to claim 1, that has been inserted by the user onto at least one outside website that is not a website associated with the automated verification system, and after having been so inserted is useable by a counterparty viewing the outside website to gain access to a message from the identity verification system about the identity rating or identity verification icon on the outside website.

4. The on-line identity rating or identity verification icon according to claim 1, wherein the claimed identity of the on-line user is a claimed identity that has been verified to be an actual identity of exactly one living human, the actual identity having been so verified by other than the human himself or herself.

5. A widget comprising an identity verification score and/or an identity verification icon that relates to an identity claimed by an on-line user, the widget being accessible to the user for the user to insert onto a website page that is not within a website that created the widget.

6. The widget according to claim 5, wherein the claimed identity of the on-line user is a claimed identity that has been verified to be an actual identity of exactly one living human, the actual identity having been so verified by other than the human himself or herself.

7. An on-line identity assurer customized to an on-line user who has a claimed identity underpinning the assurer, wherein the assurer is subject to copying by the user for presentation on a website page, where the assurer is used by a counterparty to access a first message that is generated by a computerized identity verification system and relates to the claimed identity of the user.

8. The on-line identity assurer of claim 7, comprising a widget.

9. The on-line identity assurer of claim 7, wherein if the assurer appears on an unauthorized website page which does not appear on a table of website pages that have been entered by the user into the computerized identity verification system as being website pages of the user, then the computerized identity verification system will not give the first message to a user clicking on the assurer on the unauthorized website page.

10. The on-line identity assurer according to claim 9, wherein the claimed identity of the on-line user is a claimed identity that has been verified to be an actual identity of exactly one living human, the actual identity having been so verified by other than the human himself or herself.