US 12,120,255 B2 · Methods for requesting and authenticating photographic image data

Abstract

A system and method include obtaining and authenticating image files from users such as insured users at the request of an entity such as an insurance provider. The requesting entity may supply an electronic address of the user and a unique identifier. The system may transmit a link to the electronic address. When selected, the link causes an image authentication application to be installed on a user device. The application takes the images securely and separately from a native camera application. Each image authentication application may be customized for each requesting entity. The authentication server may identify the requesting entity that made the request and identify a corresponding image authentication application to be provided to the electronic address. The images from the image authentication application may be authenticated via reverse image search, time, geolocation, and/or other information. The authenticated images and/or related data may be provided to the requesting entity.

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Dependent claims

A user device for proving electronic images have not been tampered with via a decentralized ledger, the user device comprising:

one or more hardware processors;
and
a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, cause the user device to perform operations comprising:
generating an electronic image using an image authentication application executing on the user device;
generating a device-generated hash of the electronic image based on a hash function using the image authentication application executing on the user device;
generating an image identifier for the electronic image using the image authentication application executing on the user device, the image identifier comprising the device-generated hash;
initiating a blockchain transaction using the image authentication application executing on the user device, the blockchain transaction comprising the device-generated hash for incorporation into a block of the decentralized ledger;
obtaining a block identifier for the block from a blockchain network;
and
storing, at a storage device accessible to the user device, the image identifier in association with the block identifier.

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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more hardware processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations for proving electronic images have not been tampered with via a decentralized ledger, the operations comprising:

generating an electronic image using an image authentication application executing on a user device;
generating a device-generated hash of the electronic image based on a hash function using the image authentication application executing on the user device;
generating an image identifier for the electronic image using the image authentication application executing on the user device, the image identifier comprising the device-generated hash;
initiating a blockchain transaction using the image authentication application executing on the user device, the blockchain transaction comprising the device-generated hash for incorporation into a block of the decentralized ledger;
obtaining a block identifier for the block from a blockchain network;
and
storing, at a storage device accessible to the user device, the image identifier in association with the block identifier.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Methods for requesting and authenticating photographic image data

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Methods for requesting and authenticating photographic image data

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