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Security systems and services to provide identity and uniform resource identifier verification

  • US 7,694,135 B2
  • Filed: 07/18/2005
  • Issued: 04/06/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • determining by a computer processor the trustworthiness of a location on the Internet and identifying for that location a numerical trust rating over a numerical range; and

    providing trustworthiness information based on the trust rating to a user, wherein determining includes;

    accessing one or more lists of known trustworthy or untrustworthy locations, and if a definitive determination is not made that a location is trustworthy or not trustworthy,searching for certificates that are directly related to the location, and if a certificate directly related to the location is not found,searching for certificates that are indirectly related to the location, the searching for certificates indirectly related to the location including determining a second level domain name of the location and prepending one or more predetermined prefixes to the second level domain name, andif a certificate is identified as directly related or indirectly related to the location, the determining is based on a calculation including properties of the certificate related to the location.

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