Method for certifying the authenticity of digital files generated by a communication device
AssigneeBeatcode S.R.L.
InventorsFabio UGOLINI, Giuseppe TRAVASONI
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Abstract
A description is given of a method for certifying that digital files including photos, video recordings, screenshots or recordings of a screen have been generated by an electronic communication device or by a device directly paired or synchronised with it, such as a smartphone, a tablet, a wearable device or the like, and have not been modified in any way.
Claims20
Method for certifying the authenticity of one or more digital files consisting of photos, video recordings, screenshots or screen recordings generated by an electronic communication device or generated by a device synchronised or directly coupled therewith, the method being executed by a user via said device and comprising, for each digital file, the method comprising:
- receiving as input said digital file;
- determining in an immediately successive step the type of said file) and checking whether the file belongs to one of the certifiable categories;
- wherein
- after having determined the type of the file in the previous step, a series of checks are carried out, comprising:
- verifying that said file has been generated by the device on which said method is executed or by a device synchronised or directly coupled therewith;
- verifying that the operating system of said device has not been tampered with;
- verifying that the file has not been modified in any way at the time of receiving as input;
- and wherein the user is allowed to proceed with certifying of the authenticity of the file only if all the previous verification steps have been successful.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.