US 11,388,174 B2 · System and method for securing a communication channel

Abstract

A system and method for validating an entity may include obtaining by at least a first system, a set of entity details related to the entity; associating with the entity, by the first system, a first trust level based on at least some of the entity details; and validating the entity based on the first trust level. A system and method for validating an entity may include providing at least one of first and second values to a respective at least one of first and second devices; providing the entity, by at least one of the first and second devices, with the at least one of first and second values; and using the at least one of first and second values, by the entity, to identify the entity to an identifying entity.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of validating an entity, the method comprising:

obtaining, by at least a first system, a set of entity details related to the entity and including contact details;
obtaining, by the first system, a plurality of trust levels, wherein each entity detail of the entity details is associated with a trust level of the plurality of trust levels;
selecting, based on the trust levels, a first and second contact details;
selecting, based on the first and second contact details, a respective first and second communication channels;
and
validating the entity by communicating with the entity over the first and second communication channels.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/080,014Filed 28 Feb 2017 · us provisional application

Priority

29 Feb 2016

Published

US 2019/0089717 A121 Mar 2019

Granted

12 Jul 2022

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04L 63/126
Applying verification of the received information: the source of the received data
G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication
G06F 21/44
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: program or device authentication

System and method for securing a communication channel

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System and method for securing a communication channel

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Claims18