Scoring Persons and Files for Trust in Digital Communication
AssigneeGenesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsHerbert Willi Artur Ristock, S. Michael Perlmutter, Brian Galvin
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Abstract
A method, using trust software executing from a machine-readable medium on a computerized appliance operating as a trust authority, to assign to a person, a file, or an enterprise an indication of trustworthiness, includes steps of (a) assembling information concerning the person, file, or enterprise; (b) applying trust logic to the information assembled for individual ones of the persons, files or enterprises to assign a trust score; and (c) storing the score associated with at least an identity of the person, file or enterprise.
Claims30
A method, using trust software executing from a machine-readable medium on a computerized appliance operating as a trust authority, to assign to a person, a file, or an enterprise an indication of trustworthiness, comprising steps of:
- (a) assembling information concerning the person, file, or enterprise;
- (b) applying trust logic to the information assembled for individual ones of the persons, files or enterprises to assign a trust score;
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- (c) storing the score associated with at least an identity of the person, file or enterprise.
A trust scoring system comprising:
- a computerized appliance operating as a trust authority, executing trust software from a machine-readable medium;
- a data repository coupled to the computerized appliance;
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- one or more ports coupling the computerized appliance to one or more networks;
- wherein the appliance assembles information concerning a person, a file, or an enterprise, applies trust logic to the information to determine a trust score, and stores the score determined in the data repository associated with at least an identity of the person, file or enterprise.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.