Patent ID: 9509686
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06Q,G07C,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving at a mobile communication device of a user, from a third party computing device, a confirmation that an identity of the user has been verified; and causing one or more credentials usable to authenticate the identity of the user to be stored in a secure element of the mobile communication device of the user, the secure element implemented using tamper-resistant hardware, and the one or more credentials kept from being exposed outside the secure element, wherein the one or more credentials are encrypted using a public key by an entity that obtains the public key responsive to provision of an identifier of a serial number of an integrated circuit that forms the hardware secure element of the mobile communication device, wherein the public key is one of a plurality of public keys which are located on one or more devices of a provisioning service that are auditable by an outside party to determine that information stored by the one or more devices is not configured to decrypt data encrypted by one or more of the plurality of public keys.