System and method for authenticating a user through community discussion

A method to authenticate user identities on at least one social network comprising:

• associating metadata from a posting by a first user identity on a first social network to define at least one associated text field occurring in the posting;
• defining a system generated value to be assigned to each associated text field upon subsequent use in a response by a third party, the system generated value to be applied defined without influence from the third party;
• tracking responses to the posting by at least one third party, and for each response in response to the third party using one or more of the associated text fields in the response, assigning the system generated value to each associated text field used in the response to develop an aggregate assigned value for each associated text field;
• authenticating the first user identity as a degree of credibility regarding the at least one pre-defined user identity's association to at least one associated text field based on the value of one or more of the associated text fields as developed by the subsequent use of one or more of the associated text fields by third parties;
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• providing an indication of the first user authentication.

A computer system having at least one physical processor and memory adapted by software instructions for authenticating user identities comprising:

• at least one user account in the memory, the user account identifying at least a first social network and an associated known user identity;
• the processor adapted at least in part by the software as a metadata gatherer structured and arranged to gather metadata from at least the first social network regarding each known user identity, the gathered metadata including at least one text field obtained from at least one posting by a known user identity and subsequent third party responses to the known user identity, the responses including the at least one text field;
• a database in the memory structured and arranged to associate the at least one text field to the known user identity as an associated text field;
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• the processor adapted at least in part by the software as an authenticator structured and arranged to authenticate each known user identity as a degree of credibility regarding each known user identity's association to at least one associated text field by evaluating the metadata of at least one third party response related to a posting by each known user identity, and in response to the third party using one or more of the associated text fields in the response, assigning a system generated value to each associated text field used in the response, and in the case of multiple evaluated third party responses, for each subsequently used associated text field aggregating the assigned values, the system generated value to be applied defined without influence from the third party.

A non-transitory machine readable medium on which is stored a computer program for authenticating a user, the computer program comprising instructions which when executed by a computer system having at least one processor performs the steps of:

• gathering metadata from at least one discussion involving at least one pre-defined user identity on a first social network to define at least one associated text field provided by the at least one pre-defined user and occurring in the discussion;
• defining a system generated value to be assigned to each associated text field upon subsequent use in a response by a third party, the system generated value to be applied defined without influence from the third party;
• evaluating the metadata of at least one third party response related to a posting by the at least one predefined user identity, and in response to the third party using one or more of the associated text fields in the response, assigning the system generated value to each associated text field used in the response, and in the case of multiple evaluated third party responses, for each subsequently used associated text field aggregating the assigned values;
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• authenticating the at least one pre-defined user identity as a degree of credibility regarding the at least one pre-defined user identity's association to at least one associated text field occurring in the discussion based on the value of the associated text field as developed by the subsequent use of the associated text field in the one or more evaluated third party responses, and providing an indication of authentication for the at least one pre-defined user identity.

A non-transitory machine readable medium on which is stored a computer program for authenticating a user, the computer program comprising instructions which when executed by a computer system having at least one processor performs the steps of:

• associating metadata from a posting by a first user identity on a first social network to define at least one associated text field occurring in the posting;
• defining a system generated value to be assigned to each associated text field upon subsequent use in a response by a third party, the system generated value to be applied defined without influence from the third party;
• tracking responses to the posting by at least one third party, and for each response in response to the third party using one or more of the associated text fields in the response, assigning the system generated value to each associated text field used in the response to develop an aggregate assigned value for each associated text field;
• authenticating the first user identity as a degree of credibility regarding the at least one pre-defined user identity's association to at least one associated text field based on the value of one or more of the associated text fields as developed by the subsequent use of one or more of the associated text fields by third parties;
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• providing an indication of the first user authentication.