Website owner verification system, method, and device
OwnerShelton E. Harrison, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a system, method, and device to confirm that a user to whom a given website is to be registered can access the content of the website and that a party controlling the content of the website has access to the password-protected registered-user account in which the given URL is to be registered. A code is provided to a registered user, and then a resource is requested to verify that the code appears in the resource. Once the website has been thus validated, numerous functions pertaining to the validated website or verified owner are enabled.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for verifying ownership or control comprising:
- receiving registration information at a first computer system from a second computer system by way of a first computer network, said registration information pertaining to a first user;
- establishing a first user account associated with said first user;
- receiving first location information from said first user, said first location information comprising at least a first domain;
- generating first text information;
- communicating said first text information to said first user;
- requesting a file at a first URL, said first URL comprising at least said first domain;
- determining whether said requesting said file at said first URL yielded successful retrieval of said first text information;
- and
- alternately activating or not activating a first function according to said determining whether said requesting said file at said first URL yielded successful retrieval of said first text information.
An apparatus for ensuring that a party controlling content of a website has access to a password-protected registered-user account with which that website is to be associated, said apparatus comprising:
- a first computer system connected to a first computer network, said first computer system comprising at least a processor and a memory;
- a first database system, said memory comprising said first database system, said first database system comprising at least a record for at least a first-registered user account;
- wherein:
- said first computer system is configured for:
- receiving login information from a first user, said first user being associated with said first registered-user account;
- receiving web address information from said first user;
- assigning a code;
- transmitting said code to said first user;
- requesting a first web resource by way of said first computer network;
- comparing said first web resource to said code;
- and
- enabling or not enabling a first function of said first registered-user account based on an outcome of said comparing said first web resource to said code.
An apparatus for domain verification comprising:
- a first computer system, said first computer system being connected to the Internet and comprising a data processor and data storage media, said data storage media comprising a first database;
- wherein said first computer system is configured for:
- registering a first plurality of users in said first database, said first plurality of users comprising a first user;
- logging in said first user;
- receiving a first submission from said first user, said first submission comprising at least a first domain name;
- generating a first identifier;
- transmitting said first identifier to said first user;
- determining whether said first identifier is accessible via a first URL, said first URL comprising said first domain name;
- and
- alternately granting or blocking access to a first function according to an outcome of said determining whether said first identifier is accessible via said first URL.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.