Patent ID: 11954228
Assignee: CIVIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for utilizing trust levels for attestation of information, comprising:
deriving, by a validating device, an attestation address within a distributed or centralized ledger from information of a user;
recording, by the validating device in the distributed or centralized ledger, an attestation of the information of the user with a transaction at the derived attestation address, the validating device assigned a trust level proportional to a probability that the attestation is correct by an operator of the validating device;
receiving, by the validating device from a requesting device responsive to the requesting device accessing the transaction at the attestation address, a request indicating that the attestation may be invalid;
providing, by the validating device to the requesting device responsive to the request, a first predetermined number of tokens;
providing, by the validating device to a penalizing device, a second predetermined number of tokens, the second predetermined number of tokens selected proportional to the trust level assigned to the validating device; and
receiving a third predetermined number of tokens, by the validating device from the requesting device, responsive to the requesting device accessing the transaction at the attestation address; and
wherein the second predetermined number of tokens is equal to the third predetermined number of tokens divided by a value inversely proportional to the probability that the attestation is correct.