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US 2020/0092723 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.
Claims21
1-66. (canceled)
A method of granting a request for access by a user to an online account without requiring a user password from the user to grant access to the online account, the method comprising:
- requesting, from the user, a user name and a mobile phone number;
- querying one or more mobile service providers and/or other third parties, including one or more mobile subscriber account aggregators, for a stored international mobile subscriber identifier (IMSI) associated with the user to confirm an existing bind of the user to the online account;
- authenticating a mobile identity of the user based, at least in part, on the user name, the mobile phone number, and the query;
- and
- granting the user access to the online account after successful authentication of the mobile identity of the user.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor coupled to at least one memory, the at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory being programmed to:
- request, from a user, a user name and a mobile phone number;
- query one or more mobile service providers and/or other third parties, including one or more mobile subscriber account aggregators, for a stored international mobile subscriber identifier (IMSI) associated with the user to confirm an existing bind of the user to the online account;
- authenticate a mobile identity of the user based, at least in part, on the user name, the mobile phone number, and the query;
- and
- grant the user access to an online account after successful authentication of the mobile identity of the user.
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An article comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a computing device to:
- request, from a user, a user name and a mobile phone number;
- query one or more mobile service providers and/or other third parties, including one or more mobile subscriber account aggregators, for a stored international mobile subscriber identifier (IMSI) associated with the user to confirm an existing bind of the user to the online account;
- authenticate a mobile identity of the user based, at least in part, on the user name, the mobile phone number, and the query;
- and
- grant the user access to an online account after successful authentication of the mobile identity of the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.