Patent ID: 11972013
Assignee: NEUSTAR, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. An identity protection system for authorizing a transaction, comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
receive a proposed transaction involving a user;
access a list of devices associated with the user, the list and identifying a plurality of devices that have been preselected by the user;
cause presentation of (1) the proposed transaction and (2) an option to approve or disapprove the proposed transaction to each respective person using each of the plurality of devices, wherein responses to the presented option, if provided, are transmitted to the identity protection system by the plurality of devices;
receive the responses from at least a subset of the plurality of devices; and
cause completion of the proposed transaction after a predetermined amount of time if all of the received responses approve the proposed transaction, wherein the predetermined amount of time is dynamically determined at a time of receiving the proposed transaction, wherein the predetermined amount of time is based on a security level of the proposed transaction, and wherein the security level of the proposed transaction is set to a highest security level associated with the plurality of devices.