Relationship Based Trust Verification Schema

• US 20130133054A1
• Filed: 07/18/2012
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Inventors: Davis, Marc E., Dyor, Matthew G., Gerrity, Daniel A., Huang, Xuedong, Hyde, Roderick A., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Tegreene, Clarence T.
• Application Number:
  US13/552,502
• Publication Number:
  US 20130133054A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/316 by observing the pattern of computer usage, e.g. typical user behaviour

Abstract

A computationally-implemented method, in accordance with certain example embodiments, may include, but is not limited to: receiving at a computer device one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with one or more network accessible users; receiving an authentication request at the computer device, the authentication request associated with one or more proposed transactions of the one or more network accessible users; and transmitting from the computer device a decision associated with the authentication request, the decision based at least partially on a trust verification schema generated from a relational mapping of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are presented in the claims, drawings, and written description forming a part of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A computationally-implemented system comprising:

circuitry for receiving at a computer device one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with one or more network accessible users;

circuitry for receiving an authentication request at the computer device, the authentication request associated with one or more proposed transactions of the one or more network accessible users; and

circuitry for transmitting from the computer device a decision associated with the authentication request, the decision based at least partially on a trust verification schema generated from a relational mapping of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users.

2. The computationally-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for receiving at a computer device one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for sensing at the computer device one or more actions of the one or more network accessible users; and

circuitry for applying at the computer device one or more reliability criteria to the sensed one or more actions of the one or more network accessible users to update the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users.

3. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for sensing at the computer device one or more actions of the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for detecting at the computer device one or more contacts frequently interacted with by at least one of the one or more network accessible users via one or more social networks to determine at least one interaction pattern associated with the at least one of the one or more network accessible users; and

circuitry for detecting one or more locations visited by at least one of the one or more network accessible users, the one or more locations including one or more of physical locations or internet address-based locations.

4. The computationally-implemented system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry for applying at the computer device one or more reliability criteria to the sensed one or more actions of the one or more network accessible users to update the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for altering at least one of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users as a function of the sensed one or more actions of the one or more network accessible users and at least one internet available entity.

5. The computationally-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for receiving an authentication request at the computer device, the authentication request associated with one or more proposed transactions of the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for relationally mapping the one or more behavioral fingerprints based at least partially on one or more relations between or among the one or more network accessible users as indicated by at least one social network.

6. The computationally-implemented system of claim 5, wherein the circuitry for relationally mapping the one or more behavioral fingerprints based at least partially on one or more relations between or among the one or more network accessible users as indicated by at least one social network comprises:

circuitry for receiving data at the computer device from the at least one social network, the received data indicating one or more relations between or among the one or more network accessible users; and

circuitry for mapping at the computer device one or more relationships that are extant between or among the one or more network accessible users based at least partially on the indicated one or more relations between or among the one or more network accessible users.

7. The computationally-implemented system of claim 5, wherein the circuitry for relationally mapping the one or more behavioral fingerprints based at least partially on one or more relations between or among the one or more network accessible users as indicated by at least one social network comprises:

circuitry for determining at the computer device via the at least one social network that at least one respective network accessible user of the one or more network accessible users has at least one corresponding behavioral fingerprint of the one or more behavioral fingerprints;

circuitry for determining at the computer device if the at least one corresponding behavioral fingerprint is maintained by the at least one respective network accessible user of the one or more network accessible users; and

circuitry for relationally mapping by the computer device at least a subset of the one or more network accessible users for which the at least one corresponding behavioral fingerprint is maintained by the at least one respective network accessible user.

8. The computationally-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for receiving an authentication request at the computer device, the authentication request associated with one or more proposed transactions of the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for identifying by the computer device one or more relations between or among the one or more network accessible users;

circuitry for correlating by the computer device the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users based at least partially on the identified one or more relations; and

circuitry for generating the trust verification schema at least partially by mapping the correlated one or more behavioral fingerprints with the identified one or more relations.

9. The computationally-implemented system of claim 8, wherein the circuitry for identifying by the computer device one or more relations between or among the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for identifying the one or more relations based at least partially on one or more social network data.

10. The computationally-implemented system of claim 8, wherein the circuitry for identifying by the computer device one or more relations between or among the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for identifying the one or more relations via identifying one or more common network accessible users as linked via one or more social networks.

11. The computationally-implemented system of claim 8, wherein the circuitry for correlating by the computer device the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users based at least partially on the identified one or more relations comprises:

circuitry for identifying the one or more behavioral fingerprints of the one or more network accessible users; and

circuitry for comparing the identified one or more behavioral fingerprints based at least partially on one or more relationships existing between or among the one or more network accessible users.

12. The computationally-implemented system of claim 8, wherein the circuitry for generating the trust verification schema at least partially by mapping the correlated one or more behavioral fingerprints with the identified one or more relations comprises:

circuitry for generating the trust verification schema using the correlated one or more behavioral fingerprints, wherein the correlated one or more behavioral fingerprints result in a particular level of authentication for one or more groups of related network accessible users of the one or more network accessible users.

13. The computationally-implemented system of claim 12, wherein the circuitry for generating the trust verification schema using the correlated one or more behavioral fingerprints, wherein the correlated one or more behavioral fingerprints result in a particular level of authentication for one or more groups of related network accessible users of the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for determining at least one proximity of relation for the one or more network accessible users based at least partially on one or more social network linkages that are confirmed by at least a portion of the one or more network accessible users; and

circuitry for determining at least one level of relation between or among the one or more network accessible users based at least partially on the determined at least one proximity of relation for the one or more network accessible users.

14. The computationally-implemented system of claim 13, wherein the circuitry for determining at least one level of relation between or among the one or more network accessible users based at least partially on the determined at least one proximity of relation for the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for altering the at least one level of relation between or among the one or more network accessible users based at least partially on one or more changes to relations indicated by at least one of the one or more network accessible users, the one or more changes indicated via at least one social network.

15. The computationally-implemented system of claim 13, wherein the circuitry for determining at least one level of relation between or among the one or more network accessible users based at least partially on the determined at least one proximity of relation for the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for mapping one or more locations of the one or more network accessible users to confirm the at least one level of relation between or among the one or more network accessible users.

16. The computationally-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for transmitting from the computer device a decision associated with the authentication request, the decision based at least partially on a trust verification schema generated from a relational mapping of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for using the trust verification schema to automatically authenticate a proposed transaction associated with at least one of the one or more network accessible users based at least partly on a level of authentication associated with at least two of the one or more network accessible users.

17. The computationally-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for transmitting from the computer device a decision associated with the authentication request, the decision based at least partially on a trust verification schema generated from a relational mapping of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for authenticating a shared computer processing request via verification of at least one of the one or more network accessible users based at least partly on the trust verification schema.

18. The computationally-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for transmitting from the computer device a decision associated with the authentication request, the decision based at least partially on a trust verification schema generated from a relational mapping of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for authenticating an internet purchase transaction via verification of at least one of the one or more network accessible users based at least partly on the trust verification schema.

19. The computationally-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for transmitting from the computer device a decision associated with the authentication request, the decision based at least partially on a trust verification schema generated from a relational mapping of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for authenticating a purchase by a first network accessible user of the one or more network accessible users based at least partially on a location of a second network accessible user of the one or more network accessible users and on the trust verification schema.

20. The computationally-implemented system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry for transmitting from the computer device a decision associated with the authentication request, the decision based at least partially on a trust verification schema generated from a relational mapping of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users comprises:

circuitry for denying at least one proposed transaction of the one or more proposed transactions that is attempted by at least one of the one or more network accessible users based at least partly on the trust verification schema.

21. The computationally-implemented system of claim 20, wherein the circuitry for denying at least one proposed transaction of the one or more proposed transactions that is attempted by at least one of the one or more network accessible users based at least partly on the trust verification schema comprises:

circuitry for denying the at least one proposed transaction based at least partially on a calculated combined level of authentication for related network accessible users and on a predetermined combined level of authentication that is indicated by the trust verification schema.

22. A computationally-implemented system comprising:

means for receiving at a computer device one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with one or more network accessible users;

means for receiving an authentication request at the computer device, the authentication request associated with one or more proposed transactions of the one or more network accessible users; and

means for transmitting from the computer device a decision associated with the authentication request, the decision based at least partially on a trust verification schema generated from a relational mapping of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users.

23-42. -42. (canceled)

43. A method comprising:

receiving at a computer device one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with one or more network accessible users;

receiving an authentication request at the computer device, the authentication request associated with one or more proposed transactions of the one or more network accessible users; and

transmitting from the computer device a decision associated with the authentication request, the decision based at least partially on a trust verification schema generated from a relational mapping of the one or more behavioral fingerprints associated with the one or more network accessible users.

44-63. -63. (canceled)