System and method for verifying user supplied items asserted about the user for searching and/or matching

• US 9,716,705 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2016
• Issued: 07/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoosk Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Zoosk Incorporated
• Inventors: Crane, Jared R., Royse, Joshua D., Mehr, Alexander F., Zadeh, Shayan G.
• Primary Examiner(s): MARIAM, DANIEL G
• Application Number:
  US15/207,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20170012957A1
• Time in Patent Office: 379 Days
• Field of Search: 382115, 382118, 382209, 382218, 382294, 707723, 707749, 707783, 707784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/50 Maintenance of biometric data or enrolment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231

Abstract

A system and method validates user supplied photographs and/or characteristics using a video, audio or series of images of the user responding to instructions, and uses such validation in searching and/or matching.

Claims

1. A method of verifying registration information, comprising:

receiving information about a user of a website, including purported characteristics of the user of the web site for display to other users of the web site, and/or at least one photograph purported to represent the user of the web site for display to other users of the web site;

providing at least one instruction to the user of the web site requesting the user to pose in a certain manner while causing a series of images to be recorded of the user posing in the manner;

receiving the series of images recorded, either simultaneously with their recording or thereafter;

providing the series of images to a moderator and at least one of the purported characteristics and/or at least one of the at least one photograph from the information about the user of the web site;

receiving an indication from the moderator whether the series of images of the user at least correspond to the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or the at least one of the at least one photograph provided to the moderator; and

providing data for rendering to other users of the web site a human-perceptible indication that the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or at least one of the at least one photograph of the information about the user of the web site have been verified, responsive to the indication received.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the moderator comprises a human moderator.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or the at least one of the at least one photograph comprises the at least one of the purported characteristic.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or the at least one of the at least one photograph comprises the at least one photograph.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one instruction to the user of the web site is provided in response to a request received from the user of the web site.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one instruction to the user of the web site is provided in response to a request received from another user of the web site, different from the user of the web site.

7. The method of claim 1:

additionally comprising;

providing for display to the user of the web site, the series of images; and

receiving from the user an approval of the series of images; and

wherein the providing data for rendering to other users step is additionally responsive to the approval of the series of images received.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing data for rendering to other users step is responsive to an amount of time between:

the providing data for rendering to other users step; and

the receiving the series of images step or the receiving the indication step.

9. A system of verifying registration information, comprising:

a photograph/characteristic receiver having an input for receiving information about a user of a website, including purported characteristics of the user of the web site for display to other users of the web site, and/or at least one photograph purported to represent the user of the web site for display to other users of the web site, the photograph/characteristic receiver for providing at an output the information about the user of the web site;

an instruction manager having an output for providing at least one instruction to the user of the web site requesting the user to pose in a certain manner while causing via the instruction manager output a series of images to be recorded of the user posing in the manner;

a video/audio/image manager having an input for receiving the series of images recorded, either simultaneously with their recording or thereafter, the video/audio/image manager for providing at an output the series of images recorded;

a moderator manager having an input coupled to the video/audio/image manager for receiving the series of images recorded, and to the photograph/characteristic receiver output for receiving the information about the user of the web site, the moderator manager for providing at an output the series of images for display to a moderator and at least one of the purported characteristics and/or at least one of the at least one photograph from the information about the user of the web site, for receiving from the moderator at the moderator manager input an indication whether the series of images of the user at least correspond to the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or the at least one of the at least one photograph provided to the moderator, and for providing at the moderator manager output the indication; and

a photograph/characteristic display manager having an input coupled to the moderator manager output for receiving the indication and to the photograph/characteristic output for receiving the information about the user of the web site, the photograph/characteristic display manager for providing data for rendering to other users of the web site a human-perceptible indication that the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or at least one of the at least one photograph from the information about the user of the web site have been verified, responsive to the indication received at the photograph/characteristic display manager input.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein at least a portion of the moderator comprises a human moderator.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or the at least one of the at least one photograph comprises the at least one of the purported characteristic.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or the at least one of the at least one photograph comprises the at least one photograph.

13. The system of claim 9:

additionally comprising a verification request manager having an input coupled to receive a verification request from the user of the web site, the verification request manager for providing at an output a signal responsive to receipt of the verification request; and

wherein;

the instruction manager additionally comprises an input coupled to the verification request manager output for receiving the signal; and

the at least one instruction to the user of the web site is provided by the instruction manager in response to the signal received at the instruction manager input.

14. The system of claim 9:

additionally comprising a verification request manager having an input coupled to receive from another user of the web site, different from the user of the web site, a verification request specifying the user of the web site, the verification request manager for providing at an output a signal identifying the user of the web site responsive to receipt of the verification request; and

wherein;

the instruction manager additionally comprises an input coupled to the verification request manager output for receiving the signal; and

the at least one instruction to the user of the web site is provided by the instruction manager in response to the signal received at the instruction manager input.

15. The system of claim 9 wherein:

the video/audio/image manager is additionally for;

providing via the video/audio/image manager output for display to the user of the web site, the series of images; and

receiving from the user via the video/audio/image manager input an approval of the series of images; and

the photograph/characteristic display manager provides data for rendering to other users responsive to the approval of the series of images received.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein:

the moderator manager additionally provides at the moderator manager output a first identification of substantially when the indication was received and/or the video/audio/image manager additionally provides at the video/audio/image manager output a second identification of substantially when the series of images was received;

the photograph/characteristic display manager input is additionally for receiving the first identification and/or is additionally coupled to the video/audio/image manager output for receiving the second identification;

the photograph/characteristic display manager provides the data for rendering to other users, responsive to an amount of time between;

a time or day near or when the photograph/characteristic display manager provides the data for rendering to other users; and

the first and/or second identifications.

17. A computer program product comprising a nontransitory computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for verifying registration information, the computer program product comprising computer readable program code devices configured to cause a computer system to:

receive information about a user of a website, including purported characteristics of the user of the web site for display to other users of the web site, and/or at least one photograph purported to represent the user of the web site for display to other users of the web site;

provide at least one instruction to the user of the web site requesting the user to pose in a certain manner while causing a series of images to be recorded of the user posing in the manner;

receive the series of images recorded, either simultaneously with their recording or thereafter;

provide the series of images to a moderator and at least one of the purported characteristics and/or at least one of the at least one photograph from the information about the user of the web site;

receive an indication from the moderator whether the series of images of the user at least correspond to the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or the at least one of the at least one photograph provided to the moderator; and

provide data for rendering to other users of the web site a human-perceptible indication that the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or at least one of the at least one photograph of the information about the user of the web site have been verified, responsive to the indication received.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein at least a portion of the moderator comprises a human moderator.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or the at least one of the at least one photograph comprises the at least one of the purported characteristic.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the at least one of the purported characteristics and/or the at least one of the at least one photograph comprises the at least one photograph.

21. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the at least one instruction to the user of the web site is provided in response to a request received from the user of the web site.

22. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the at least one instruction to the user of the web site is provided in response to a request received from another user of the web site, different from the user of the web site.

23. The computer program product of claim 17:

additionally comprising computer readable program code devices configured to cause the computer system to;

provide for display to the user of the web site, the series of images; and

receive from the user an approval of the series of images; and

wherein the computer readable program code devices configured to cause a computer system to provide data for rendering to other users are additionally responsive to the approval of the series of images received.

24. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the computer readable program code devices configured to cause the computer system to provide data for rendering to other users are responsive to an amount of time approximately between:

operation of computer readable program code devices configured to cause the computer system to provide data for rendering to other users; and

operation of the computer readable program code devices configured to cause the computer system to receive the series of images or operation of the computer readable program code devices configured to cause the computer system to receive the indication.