US 2019/0197220 A1Published application

Security and content protection by continuous identity verification

AssigneePearson Education, Inc.

InventorsGregory ANDERSON, Wayne BAILEY, Colleen M. DOLAN, Jide FAJOBI, Darrick JENSEN, Ronald D. LANCASTER, JR., Matthew MALONEY, Michael NEALIS, Steven C. NORDBERG, Peter PASCALE, Andrew STOCKINGER, Julianne Michael Schaffer

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Abstract

A system includes one or more server hardware computing devices includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to receive a request to verify an identity of a user attempting to complete an examination provided by an online proctored examination platform to a candidate user authorized to complete the examination and repeatedly, at a predefined interval during the examination, determine, based at least in part on user data collected by the online proctored examination platform during the examination, the user data identifying the user at a time that the interval elapses, whether the user is the candidate user, and, responsive to a determination that the user is not the candidate user, perform one or more of a plurality of actions associated with a failed identity verification, the plurality of actions including stopping the examination.

Claims20

Dependent claims

decision logic executable by the one or more processors and comprising one or more image processing algorithms for matching a subject across a plurality of images;
and
specific computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:
receive a first message associated with a first user account of an online proctored examination platform;
determine that the first message includes a request to begin an examination using a client device associated with the first user account;
establish a video data connection between a first server of the one or more server hardware computing devices and the client device via the network;
receive, from the client device, video data comprising a live feed captured by a video capture device associated with the client device;
obtain a first image from the video data;
execute the decision logic using the first image to produce a first identity verification indicating that the first image depicts a candidate associated with the first user account and authorized to take the examination;
responsive to the first identity verification, cause the examination to begin;
during the examination, receive user input collected by the client device;
obtain, from the user input, current user identity information identifying a user of the client device when the user input was collected;
compare the current user identity information to stored identifying information of the candidate to produce one of a current identity verification indicating the user is the candidate, and a failed identity verification indicating the user is not the candidate;
and
responsive to the failed identity verification, perform one or more actions associated with a potential cheating incident.

12 more elements

A system, comprising one or more server hardware computing devices communicatively coupled to a network, the one or more server hardware computing devices comprising one or more processors and memory storing specific computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:

receive a request to verify an identity of a candidate authorized to complete an examination provided by an online proctored examination platform;
obtain a first image depicting the candidate at a first time;
receive a second image comprising a frame of a video feed captured by a video capture device during the examination, the frame having been captured by the video capture device at a second time later than the first time;
determine that the second image depicts a user using a client device, at the second time, to take the examination;
compare the second image to the first image to determine whether the user is the candidate;
and
responsive to a determination that the user is not the candidate, perform one or more actions including stopping the examination.

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receive a request to verify an identity of a user attempting to complete an examination provided by an online proctored examination platform to a candidate user authorized to complete the examination;
and
repeatedly, at a predefined interval during the examination:
determine, based at least in part on user data collected by the online proctored examination platform during the examination, the user data identifying the user at a time that the interval elapses, whether the user is the candidate user;
and
responsive to a determination that the user is not the candidate user, perform one or more of a plurality of actions associated with a failed identity verification, the plurality of actions including stopping the examination.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/939,056Filed 28 Mar 2018
Priority: 27 Dec 2017
Published: 27 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification38 codes

G06Q 10/0635
Operations research, analysis or management: risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities
G06F 9/546
Interprogram communication: message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues
G06F 11/3438
Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation ; Recording or statistical evaluation of…:…
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication