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Identity verification and authentication

  • US 9,595,057 B2
  • Filed: 02/11/2016
  • Issued: 03/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by a first computing device associated with a social-networking system from a second computing device associated with a first user of the social-networking system, a first request to verify a claimed identity of a merchant, the social-networking system maintaining information relating to one or more social connections of the first user with additional users of the social-networking system;

    sending, by the first computing device to a third computing device associated with the merchant, a second request for information about the merchant;

    receiving, at the first computing device from the third computing device, the information about the merchant;

    determining, by the first computing device, a confidence score indicating a confidence level of the claimed identity of the merchant, based at least in part on the information received from the third computing device and information available to the social-networking system; and

    sending, by the first computing device to the second computing device associated with the user, the confidence score for verifying the claimed identity of the merchant.

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