Account verification in deferred provisioning systems

A method of provisioning a user account:

• at a local entity, contact a remote identity system to begin provisioning the user account;
• at the local entity, based on contacting the remote identity system, automatically receive from the remote identity system a correlating factor that is related to a verification code that will be received at the local entity at a later time;
• at the local entity, receive profile information entered into the local entity that will be stored in the user account at the remote identity system only after the local entity has received both the correlating factor and the verification code;
• at the local entity, obtaining the verification code corresponding to the correlating factor;
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• as a result of obtaining the verification code corresponding to the correlating factor, send the correlating factor, verification code, and the profile information from the local entity to the remote identity system to be used by the remote identity system to determine that the verification code correlates to the correlating factor such that determining that the verification code correlates to the correlating factor causes the remote identity system to responsively fully provision the user account and then store the profile information in the user account provisioned at the remote identity system.

A method of provisioning a user account:

• at a remote identity system, receiving a request from a local entity to begin provisioning the user account to be stored at the remote identity system;
• in response to receiving the request, the remote identity system causing a verification code to be sent to the local entity;
• at the remote identity system, causing a correlating factor to be sent to the local entity, wherein the correlating factor is related to the verification code sent to the user and is sent in a different manner than the verification code;
• at the remote identity system, receiving from the local entity, the correlating factor, verification code, and user entered profile information;
• at the remote identity system, determining that the verification code properly correlates to the correlating factor;
• as a result of determining that the verification code properly correlates to the correlating factor, at the remote identity system, causing the user account to be fully provisioned;
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• based upon the user account being fully provisioned, at the remote identity system, causing the profile information to be stored in the user account at the remote identity system.