FILE VAULT AND CLOUD BASED DOCUMENT NOTARY SERVICE

• US 20170024711A1
• Filed: 04/26/2016
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Baron, Casey L.
• Granted Patent: US 9,886,684 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/16 Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/602 Providing cryptographic facilities or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/645 using a third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2151 Time stamp
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/18 Legal services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0442 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply asymmetric encryption, i.e. different keys for encryption and decryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for public-key encryption H04L9/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/12 Applying verification of the received information cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for data integrity or data verification H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/123 received data contents, e.g. message integrity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/126 the source of the received data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0894 Escrow, recovery or storing of secret information, e.g. secret key escrow or cryptographic key storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3247 involving digital signatures

Abstract

In one embodiment, a trusted cloud service such as an “electronic vault” may store records of a consumer'"'"'s electronic data file history. These documents may come from disparate providers and include financial statements and the like. The trusted vault cloud may act as an online notary to certify documents are legitimate and may be trusted. For example, a retailer may dispute whether the consumer paid a debt. To resolve the issue the retailer may access the cloud vault to retrieve a bank statement for the consumer, whereby the bank statement is electronically notarized by the vault cloud and is thus credible to the retailer. The retailer may then see proof the consumer had indeed paid a past debt to the retailer. Other embodiments are described herein.

Claims

1. A method executed by at least one processor comprising:

receiving a first document from a first node associated with a first party and a second document from a second node associated with a second party, the first and second nodes remotely coupled to the at least one processor via a network;

storing the first and second documents in at least one non-volatile machine accessible medium coupled to the at least one processor, the first and second documents respectively assigned to first and second document identifiers;

receiving a first request to access the first document, the first request corresponding to the first document identifier;

receiving a first authorization from a third node, associated with a third party, that is remotely coupled to the at least one processor via the network; and

granting the first request based on the first authorization and the first document identifier.