System and method for verifying the age of an internet user

• US 8,650,621 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2010
• Issued: 02/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: REGO Payment Architectures, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Virtual Piggy, Inc.
• Inventors: Webber, Jo, Ittycheria, Pradeep
• Primary Examiner(s): GOLDBERG, ANDREW C
• Application Number:
  US12/991,063
• Publication Number:
  US 20110185400A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: 726/4
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/205 involving negotiation or determination of the one or more network security mechanisms to be used, e.g. by negotiation between the client and the server or between peers or by selection according to the capabilities of the entities involved negotiation of communication capabilities H04L69/24

Abstract

A method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user comprises establishing an age check account; receiving information about a user, the information including an alleged age of the user; sending the information to be verified; and receiving a notification that the information has been verified.

Claims

1. A method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user, comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium including a program and a computer executable program code, the method comprising:

establishing, by a user at a user client computer, an age check account in an alleged identity and age server computer, said age server computer comprising a first database,

the account established by receiving information from a user operating a service requester client computer via an Internet application, the information including an alleged age of the user;

storing the information in the first database in the alleged identity and age server computer;

requesting information from a partner requester client computer, the partner requester client computer comprising a second database, the second database including information about the user, the information being previously provided by the user;

comparing the user information in the alleged identity and age server computer comprising the first database with information received from the partner service requester client computer comprising the second database;

the comparison verifying that information previously provided by the user, from the partner service requester, corresponds to the information from the service requester client computer, including the alleged age of the user;

sending a notification to the service requester from the age check system that the alleged age of the user has been verified; and

the service requester requiring aggregation, in the first database, of the information from the partner requester client computer with the information in the alleged identity and age server computer, including the alleged age of the user,

wherein the information from the service requester is received by the alleged identity and age database through an application programming interface accessed by the user via the Internet application, and

wherein verification further comprises verifying the information manually by comparing against public records.

2. The method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the service requester establishes the age check account with an Internet-accessible age check system.

3. The method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the information includes demographic information.

4. The method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the step of sending the information to be verified is performed automatically.

5. The method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the notification is either a pass or fail notification.

6. The method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, further comprising the aggregating the information of a plurality of users.

7. The method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the information from the user is sent via a mobile telephone.

8. The method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, further comprising establishing an information comparison database, the information comparison database including information about a particular user accumulated from a plurality of partner service requester databases and public records.

9. The method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user according to claim 8, wherein the information comparison database is updated for each user each time the information about the particular user is received from the plurality of partner service requester databases.

10. The method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user according to claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s alleged age is stored in a database of the service requestor.