Patent ID: 8996485
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for using a computer-implemented web-site verification service to verify whether or not certain web sites and their universal resource locators (URLs) are associated with trusted entities, comprising: as a user browses the world wide web using computing equipment, retaining a URL for a web site of unknown authenticity using the computing equipment; presenting an on-screen opportunity on the computing equipment for the user to supply the web site verification service with a text string naming which trusted entity the user believes should be associated with the web site of unknown authenticity; after the user supplies the text string, using the user-supplied text string to query a database with the computing equipment to produce database query results that identify which URLs are legitimately associated with the text string; and with the computing equipment comparing the retained URL to the database query results to determine whether the web site of unknown authenticity is associated with the trusted entity.