Geographical location authentication method

• US 8,700,003 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2010
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Elliot Klein
• Inventors: Klein, Elliot
• Primary Examiner(s): MITCHELL, NATHAN A
• Application Number:
  US13/393,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20120164982A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,322 Days
• Field of Search: 455/411
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 13/00 Voting apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A system and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for authenticating votes or transactions received from a mobile device comprising a computer programmed with a set of computer-readable instructions and a database accessed by mobile device reading a durable computer readable medium stored in a computer server or mobile communications device module, the database comprising a registered geographical location and corresponding postal mail delivery address, means to receive a vote in an election or a transaction over a wireless carrier network, means to determine geographical location of a device which transmitted the transaction over the wireless network comprising cell tower triangulation or Assisted-GPS and means to reject vote or transaction if geographical location of the device which transmitted the vote or transaction is not within a predetermined distance range from the geographical location for the registered postal mail delivery address latitude or longitude coordinates embodied and executable in a physical medium.

Claims

1. A computer system for authenticating a user'"'"'s mobile device for a transaction over the internet comprising

a. a hardware server configured to register and store in a database geographical location longitude and latitude coordinates of a postal mail delivery address;

b. an authentication module configured to

(1) receive or transmit the user'"'"'s transaction request;

(2) receive at least two sources of the user'"'"'s current mobile device geographical location data;

(3) determine based on the received at least two sources of the user'"'"'s current mobile device geographical location data whether the current geographical location of the user'"'"'s mobile device is within a predetermined distance from the registered geographical location longitude and latitude coordinates of the postal mail delivery address; and

(4) reject the user'"'"'s transaction request if the geographical location of the user'"'"'s mobile device is not within the predetermined distance from the registered geographical location longitude and latitude coordinates of the postal mail delivery address.

2. A non-transitory computer-readable-storage medium comprising one or more computer-executable instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a user'"'"'s mobile-communication device, cause the user'"'"'s mobile-computing device to:

(1) receive or transmit the user'"'"'s transaction request;

(2) receive at least two sources of the user'"'"'s current mobile device geographical location data;

(3) determine based on the received geographical location data whether the user'"'"'s current mobile device geographical location is within a predetermined distance from a registered geographical location of a postal mail delivery address; and

(4) reject the transaction request if the geographical location of the user'"'"'s mobile device is not within the predetermined distance from the registered geographical location of the postal mail delivery address.