Automated third party verification system

• US 9,674,353 B1
• Filed: 09/23/2014
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: McIntosh, Jonathan P.
• Primary Examiner(s): MCFADDEN, SUSAN IRIS
• Application Number:
  US14/493,844
• Time in Patent Office: 987 Days
• Field of Search: 704275, 704273
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/16 Payments settled via telecommunication systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/24 Credit schemes, i.e. "pay after"
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/305 using wired telephone networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/409 Device specific authentication in transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/38 with central registration
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/06 Decision making techniques; Pattern matching strategies
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/018 Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4936 Speech interaction details speech recognition per se G10L15/00

Abstract

A third party verification system, method, and computer readable medium comprising a response unit in communication with at least a first party, said response unit configured to automatically elicit information in the form of a dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) response from the at least first party providing evidence of consent granted by the at least first party to enter into at least one transaction with at least a second party, and a print server in communication with said response unit, said print server configured to receive and store said information to provide a record for third party verification that the at least first party consented to enter into the at least one transaction with the at least one second party.

Claims

1. A third party verification system, comprising:

a response unit in communication with at least a first party, said response unit configured to elicit information in the form of a dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) response from the at least first party; and

a voice print server in communication with said response unit, said voice print server configured to receive and store said information to provide a record for third party verification that the at least first party consented to enter into the at least one transaction with at least one second party.

2. The third party verification system of claim 1, wherein the response unit includes a video response unit operable to elicit information in the form of a video response from the at least first party.

3. The third party verification system of claim 1, wherein the response unit includes a voice response unit operable to elicit information in the form of a vocal response from the at least first party.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the response unit further includes speech recognition capability in said voice response unit.

5. The system of claim 3, further including at least one speech pattern verification system included in or in communication with said voice response unit, said speech pattern verification system configured to analyze speech patterns of said vocal response.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said at least one speech pattern verification system comprises software running on said voice response unit.

7. The third party verification system of claim 1, further comprising an Internet server configured to facilitate download of said information from said voice print server by a party at a remote location.

8. The third party verification system of claim 1, wherein said voice print server is configured to catalog said information to provide said record for said third party verification.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said information comprises consent to change long distance telephone service providers.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said voice print server includes an array of data storage devices.