Patent ID: 11954684
Assignee: UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing proof of identity of a user to a requesting application, comprising:
activating, on a mobile computing device, the requesting application;, receiving, by the requesting application, a digital identification selection from the user of the mobile computing device;
scanning, by the requesting application, the mobile computing device to search for digital identification service provider applications stored on the mobile computing device;
outputting, by the requesting application, a list of digital identification service provider applications using the mobile computing device;
receiving, by the requesting application, a selection of one of the digital identification service provider applications from the list;
transmitting, by the requesting application, an identification verification request from the requesting application to the selected digital identification service provider application;
activating, on the mobile computing device, the selected digital identification service provider application;
receiving, by the selected digital identification service provider application, the transmitted identification verification request from the requesting application;
prompting, by the selected digital identification service provider application, the user to enter authentication information;
receiving, by the selected digital identification service provider application, the authentication information entered by the user using the mobile computing device;
authenticating, by the selected digital identification service provider application, the user using the authentication information;
retrieving, by the selected digital identification service provider application, a set of digital identification information corresponding to the user in response to authenticating the user by accessing a digital identification service provider including a digital identification service provider database storing digital identifications including the set of digital identification information corresponding to the user, wherein the authentication information is different than the set of digital identification information;
displaying, by the selected digital identification service provider application, for the user, the set of digital identification information;
prompting, by the selected digital identification service provider application, the user to grant the requesting application access to the set of digital identification information, which proves the user's identity to the requesting application;
receiving, by the selected digital identification service provider application, information indicating that the user has granted access to the set of digital identification information;
transmitting, by the selected digital identification service provider application, the set of digital identification information to the requesting application after receiving the information indicating that the user has granted access to the set of digital identification information; and
accessing, by the requesting application, a user account conditioned on the requesting application receiving the set of digital identification information transmitted by the selected digital identification service provider application.