# US 8,787,627 B1 · System for non-repudiable registration of an online identity

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- Number: US 8,787,627 B1
- Document ID: US8787627B1
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B1
- Application number: 13/947,008
- Filed: 2013-07-19
- Granted: 2014-07-22
- Earliest claimed: 2010-04-16
- Applicants: Steven Jay Freedman
- Inventors: Steven Jay Freedman
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8787627B1

## CPC

- G06V 40/20: Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition (recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16)
- G06V 40/172: {Classification, e.g. identification}
- G06V 40/45: {Detection of the body part being alive}
- G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

## Abstract

A method of generating irrefutable evidence of registration that cannot be repudiated by the registrant for a network-based application is described. The method initiates an image capture session to capture a plurality of images of an individual user. The method, during the image capture session, provides a sequence of tasks to be performed by the individual user in order to validate the image capture session in capturing an image of a person participating in a real-time event.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of performing an image capture session to generate verifiable evidence that a user is participating in a real-time event, the method comprising:
initiating an image capture session to capture a plurality of images of the user;
during the image capture session, generating a sequence of tasks to be performed by the user, said generating comprising randomly selecting a set of user-specific tasks from a plurality of tasks stored in a database;
presenting the sequence of tasks to be performed to the user; and
storing the plurality of images of the user performing the sequence of tasks and a description of the sequence of tasks as evidence that the user is participating in a real-time event.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the image capture session is for generating evidence of registration for a network-based application.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, wherein the sequence of tasks performed by the user serves as irrefutable evidence that the user is a person participating in a real time image capture session so that the user cannot later repudiate the evidence of registration.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the sequence of tasks comprises at least one physical task.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the sequence of tasks comprises a set of standard tasks to be provided to every user and the set of randomly-selected tasks to be selected for each user.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising initiating an audio capture session to capture audio data of the user during the image capture session.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The method of claim 6 further comprising storing the audio data captured during the image capture session as an additional evidence that the user is participating in a real-time event.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7 further comprising verifying the evidence by analyzing the captured plurality of images and audio data to determine whether the captured plurality of images and audio data satisfy a set of evaluation criteria associated with the sequence of tasks.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8, wherein the set of evaluation criteria comprises a set of expected oral responses for at least one task from the sequence of tasks.

### Claim 10 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein each captured image is associated with a digital timestamp indicating when the image was captured.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10 further comprising verifying the evidence by examining the digital timestamps to determine whether the plurality of images were captured continuously.

### Claim 12 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2 further comprising:
during the image capture session, receiving a set of identity elements that comprise identifying information for the user; and
verifying the evidence of registration by:
retrieving a set of images over a network, wherein each image in the set is associated with information that matches at least one of the identity elements; and
comparing each image in the retrieved set of images to at least one image from the captured plurality of images to determine whether an individual represented in the retrieved image matches the user represented in the captured plurality of images.

### Claim 13 (depends on 12)

The method of claim 12 further comprising increasing a trust metric associated with the user when determining that any individual represented in the retrieved image matches the user represented in the captured plurality of images.

### Claim 14 (depends on 13)

The method of claim 13 further comprising decreasing the trust metric when determining that no individual represented in the retrieved image matches the user represented in the captured plurality of images.

### Claim 15

A method for validating a user registration for a network-based application, the method comprising:
providing a validation procedures director for:
i) initiating an image capture operation to capture a plurality of images of a user as a registrant; and
ii) specifying a set of registration tasks to be performed by the user during an interview session, the set of registration tasks selected in order to validate that the image capture session is capturing an image of a person participating in a real-time event; and
providing a validation module for validating the user registration by:
i) examining the plurality of images using automated facial recognition to determine whether the plurality of images includes recognizable images of the user; and
ii) analyzing the plurality of images to determine whether the plurality of images indicates the performance of the set of registration tasks.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the set of registration tasks presented to the registrant serves as irrefutable evidence that the registrant is a person participating in a real time image capture session so that the registrant cannot later repudiate the evidence.

### Claim 17 (depends on 15)

The method of claim 15 further comprising storing the plurality of images.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The method of claim 17, wherein the validation procedures director is further for (i) performing an audio capture session during the image capture session and (ii) validating the captured audio.

### Claim 19 (depends on 17)

The method of claim 17 further comprising increasing a trust metric associated with the user when determining that an individual represented in images retrieved over a network matches the user represented in the captured plurality of images, wherein the retrieved images are retrieved based on an identity of the user.

### Claim 20 (depends on 19)

The method of claim 19, wherein the trust metric is at least partially based on a variety of crowd-sourced information that is collected for the registrant.