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US 2016/0112872 A1Published application
Identity authentication
AssigneePayfone, Inc.
InventorsKristin Noelle McClement, Matthew Emmett Brown, Michael Colten Brody, Christopher Cunningham
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Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method and/or system for mobile identity authentication is disclosed. For example, mobile identity authentication may be employed in a variety of situations, including purchases, financial transactions, granted access to accounts, granting access to content, etc.
Claims66
A method to reduce risk of incorrectly failing to authenticate a mobile identity as valid to a third party making a request for mobile identity authentication (MIA) of a mobile subscriber comprising:
- associating an identifier with a pre-established mobile identity for the mobile subscriber in a database entry of a mobile database;
- and
- expanding the database entry to be capable to provide more accurate and/or timelier mobile identity authentication (MIA) responses regarding the mobile subscriber to the third party request so as to reduce reliance on a mobile identity authentication (MIA) default, including reliance by the third party making the request for mobile identity authentication (MIA).
An apparatus comprising:
- a computing device;
- said computing device operable to associate a mobile subscriber identifier with a pre-established mobile identity for a mobile subscriber in a database entry of a mobile database and to expand the database entry to be capable to provide more accurate and/or timelier mobile identity authentication (MIA) responses regarding the mobile subscriber to a third party request for mobile identity authentication (MIA) of the mobile subscriber so as to reduce reliance on a mobile identity authentication (MIA) default, including reliance by the third party making the request for mobile identity authentication (MIA), and to consequently reduce risk of incorrectly failing to authenticate the mobile identity as valid to the third party making the request for mobile identity authentication (MIA) of the mobile subscriber.
An article comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a computing device to associate a mobile subscriber identifier with a pre-established mobile identity for a mobile subscriber in a database entry of a mobile database and to expand the database entry to be capable to provide more accurate and/or timelier mobile identity authentication (MIA) responses regarding the mobile subscriber to a third party request for mobile identity authentication (MIA) of the mobile subscriber so as to reduce reliance on a mobile identity authentication (MIA) default, including reliance by the third party making the request for mobile identity authentication (MIA), and to consequently reduce risk of incorrectly failing to authenticate the mobile identity as valid to the third party making the request for mobile identity authentication (MIA) of the mobile subscriber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.