Patent ID: 8789163
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for verifying a membership certificate of a purported member of an identified organization, represented as an icon on a purported member's website, the computer implemented method comprising activating the membership certificate icon; retrieving the membership certificate linked to the icon, the membership certificate comprising a field identifying an organization that issued the membership certificate and a payload section including specific information pertaining to the purported member, the specific information structured by specific fields; retrieving an organization certificate associated with the identified organization that created the membership certificate, the organization certificate including a predetermined set of information elements defining the membership, the predetermined set of information elements structured by fixed fields defined by tie identified organization and included a pointer to a separate table comprising specific tagged fields that are populated by the identified organization when creating the membership certificate; comparing the presented elements in the membership certificate with the predetermined set of information elements within the organization certificate; and verifying the membership certificate if and only if the specific fields structured in the membership certificate match the predetermined set of fixed fields structured within the organization certificate as defined by the identified organization.