Patent ID: 9712525
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A system for validating the identity of a user, comprising: a validation server configured to receive, via a network from a smartphone of a user, the telephone number and/or email address of a user, random PINs sent to the user's phone and/or email, a smartphone image of a preexisting credential of the user, including both a biometric of the user and a unique identifier associated with the preexisting user credential; and a database configured to store the received smartphone image in association with a unique identifier; wherein the validation server is further configured to (i) receive, via the network from a network device of a registrar seeking to validate the user, the unique identifier associated with the preexisting user credential, (ii) transmit, via the network in response to receipt of the unique identifier associated with the preexisting user credential from the validation application executing on the network device, a validation code to both (a) the user's smartphone for display by the user's smartphone and (b) the registrar's network device for display by the registrar's network device, and (iii) to receive, via the network from the registrar's network device, confirmation that a validation code displayed on the user's smartphone matches the validation code on the registrar's network device, thereby confirming that the user has been validated by the registrar.