Patent ID: 11870775
Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A server computer, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory including instructions that, when executed with the processor, cause the server computer to, at least:
receive, from a merchant registrar computer system in a first federated network of computing devices, an authentication request to authenticate a first computing device being utilized to conduct a transaction in the first federated network of computing devices, the authentication request including a token, the token including biometric information of a user for the transaction;
identify that the token is signed by an entity residing in a second federated network of computing devices, wherein the token includes a canonical address formatting scheme for communicating with the second federated network of computing devices;
identify a network address for communicating with a registrar computer system associated with the second federated network of computing devices based on the canonical address formatting scheme of the token;
transmit the authentication request from the merchant registrar computer system to the registrar computer system using the network address;
receive, from the registrar computer system, a confirmation of the authentication request, the confirmation determined by the registrar computer system using the biometric information of the user and a signature of the token by the entity residing in the second federated network of computing devices; and
transmit, to the merchant registrar computer system, the confirmation of the authentication request including the token, the token further signed by the merchant registrar computer system for transmission to the first computing device for use in subsequent transactions in the first federated network of computing devices by allowing communications between the first computing device residing in the second federated network of computing devices with devices of the first federated network of computing devices without requiring additional authentication.