US 2006/0224611 A1Published application

Identity management user experience

AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation

InventorsMelissa Dunn, Marcus Harvey

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Abstract

Example embodiment of the present invention provide for assisting a user in managing the user's shared persona on a request-by-request basis. Upon requesting to share one or more types of identity information, the user is automatically presented with an interface through which the user can interact in selecting an amount of identity items to share. A subset of the total identity items selected may then be shared with specified entities. In another embodiment, the present invention assists a user in managing identity information that has been shared with others by providing the user with a visual list of entities for which the user has shared specified identity information. Other embodiments of the present invention use shared information about an entity to automatically provide the user with the ability to update identity information that has subsequently been edited.

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Dependent claims

At a computing device in a distributed system, a method of assisting a user in managing the user's shared persona on a request-by-request basis by automatically presenting the user with an interface through which the user can interact with to select an amount of identity information the user is willing to share with a specified entity, the method comprising acts of:

receiving a request to share a user's identity information with one or more entities, the identity information including one or more available types of identity information including one or more of the user's personal contact information, the user's business contact information, the user's legal information, or a digital identity for the user;
based on the request to share the user's identity information, automatically displaying a user interface that includes a list of identity items corresponding to the one or more available types of identity information;
and
receiving user input:
that selects or deselects one or more identity items from the list of identity items for sharing a subset of the list of identity items with the one or more entities;
and
based on the user input, sending the subset of the list of identity items to the one or more entities.

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At a computing device in a distributed system, a method of assisting a user in managing identity information shared with other entities by providing the user with a visual list of entities for which the user has shared specified identity information, the method comprising acts of:

receiving a request for determining one or more entities for which one or more specified identity items from identity information about a user has been shared, the identity information including one or more available types of information including one or more of the user's personal contact information, the user's business contact information, the user's legal information, or a digital identity for the user;
accessing a log file that includes shared information about the one or more entities for which the one or more specified identity items have been shared;
and
based on the shared information about the one or more entities, automatically generating a user interface that includes a list of the one or more entities for allowing the user to perform such tasks as revocation, updating, and other tasks associated with the identity information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.