Patent ID: 8484709
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for authenticating an identity comprising: a computing device receiving a first credential over a first communications channel, the first received credential being provisionally associated with an identity; the computing device determining a second communications channel from a comparison between the first received credential and a first reference credential, the second communications channel being provisionally associated with the first credential and being different from the first communications channel; the computing device opening the second communications channel and receiving a second credential over the opened second communications channel; and the computing device authenticating the identity by generating a first identity proof score from a correlation between the first received credential and the first reference credential, generating a second identity proof score from a correlation between the second received credential and a second reference credential, and generating an ultimate identity proof score from the first identity proof score and the second identity proof score, wherein the first identity proof score is indicative of a first correlation level between the first received credential and the first reference credential, the second identity proof score is indicative of a second correlation level between the second received credential and the second reference credential, and the ultimate identity proof score is indicative of a confidence level in a correlation between the received credentials and the identity.