Patent ID: 9202026
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. Validation system that authenticates documents and/or information, including biometric information, submitted at a first terminal to obtain other documents, and the other documents are later submitted at a second terminal to receive permission to do a specific thing, and a verification system server that accesses ones of a plurality of trust authority servers with associated secure databases to access information stored in the secure databases to be used by the verification system server to test the authentication of the documents and information submitted at the first terminal while protecting the privacy of the person submitting the documents and information for authentication, the validation system comprising: a validation privacy server connected to the first and second terminals and connected to the verification system server, the validation privacy server forwarding initial document and/or information authentication requests received from ones of the first terminals on to the verification system server for authentication processing using information the verification system server retrieves from ones of the trust authority servers and their associated databases, the validation privacy server receiving indications from the verification system server indicating only authentication or non-authentication of documents and/or information submitted to the verification system server for authentication processing, and the validation privacy server forwarding only the authenticity or non-authenticity indications received from the verification system server to the first terminal requesting authentication processing, and no information stored in the databases associated with the trust authority servers is ever returned by the verification system server to the validation privacy server; a validation privacy database connected to the validation privacy server and in which the validation privacy server stores only the authenticity or non-authenticity indications that are returned from the verification system server to the validation privacy server the first time documents and/or information are submitted at one of the first terminals for authentication processing; and wherein when an other document generated at the first terminal is subsequently submitted at any time and on different dates in the future by a person at a second terminal to obtain permission at the any time and different date to do the specific thing for which the other document has been issued, the last mentioned second terminal forwards information on the subsequently submitted other document to the validation privacy server which checks the validation privacy database for a previously stored authenticity indication and, if there is a previously stored authenticity indication in the validation privacy database the validation privacy server returns the previously stored authenticity indication to the last mentioned second terminal, and if there is no previously stored authenticity indication in the validation privacy database for the submitted other document the validation privacy server returns an indication to the last mentioned second terminal that there is no previously stored authenticity indication in the validation privacy database to report to the second terminal, thus minimizing authentication processing by the verification system server and the trust authority servers.