US 12,114,150 B2 · Authenticated communications device to tie real-world and digital identities

Abstract

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be utilized to bring about accessing a data store to determine that signal packets have been received, via an electronic communications network, from a communications device that is to be verified. The communications device being co-located with a real-world identity. The method may additionally include electronically determining that a subscriber account identifier or a subscriber-unique alias is bound to an account held by the real-world identity and electronically tying the subscriber account identifier or the subscriber-unique alias to the real-world identity in response to electronically verifying the communications device after determining that the signal packets have been received from the communications device and in response to electronically determining that the subscriber account identifier or the subscriber-unique alias is bound to the account held by the real-world identity.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by an identity verification server, a verification request from a client server, wherein the verification request includes:
a real-world identity of a subscriber, and
a digital identity;
confirming, by the identity verification server, a first bind between the real-world identity and a subscriber account identifier, wherein the subscriber account identifier is associated with a communications device;
confirming, by the identity verification server, a second bind between the subscriber account identifier and the digital identity;
responsive to determining, by the identity verification server, the subscriber is in physical possession of the communications device, and further responsive to determining, by the identity verification server, that a reputation of the communications device exceeds a threshold of trustworthiness, establishing a third bind between the real-world identity and the digital identity;
and
transmitting, by the identity verification server, to the client server an acknowledgement of the third bind.

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An article comprising:

a non-transitory storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a special-purpose computing platform having a processor of an identity verification server coupled to at least one memory of the identity verification server are operable to:
receive, by the identity verification server, a verification request from a client server, wherein the verification request includes:
a real-world identity of a subscriber, and
a digital identity;
confirm, by the identity verification server, a first bind between the real-world identity and a subscriber account identifier, wherein the subscriber account identifier is associated with a communications device;
confirm, by the identity verification server, a second bind between the subscriber account identifier and the digital identity;
responsive to a determination, by the identity verification server, that the subscriber is in physical possession of the communications device, and further responsive to a determination, by the identity verification server, that a reputation of the communications device exceeds a threshold of trustworthiness, establish a third bind between the real-world identity and the digital identity;
and
transmit, by the identity verification server, to the client server an acknowledgement of the third bind.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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