Patent ID: 7660795

Claim:
A computing system for facilitating management of user identities, the system comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor for storing an executable program, the program including a plurality of components, the components including: a registration component for facilitating gathering information from users and establishing a relationship between a user and an identity; an ownership component for facilitating verification of an ownership of an account and facilitating relating the ownership to the identity, wherein the ownership component further facilitates confirming the ownership of a user identifier (id), analyzes ownership data and generates questions to be asked of the user to verify the identity of the user; an audit component for: facilitating monitoring the account and the identity to verify an integrity of the relationship, including determining a usage history of the identity based on at least one transaction deemed a successful or unsuccessful confirmation of the relationship between the identity and the account, assigning a positive weight for a successful transaction by the identity associated with the account, assigning a negative weight for an unsuccessful transaction by the identity associated with the account, assigning a negative weight for a particular series of unsuccessful transactions by the identity associated with the account that exceeds an aggregate of individual negative weights of unsuccessful transactions that make up the particular series of unsuccessful transactions by the identity associated with the account, aggregating the positive and negative weights to determine usage history of the identity of the user, determining a likelihood a claimed identity is an owner of said account by converting the aggregation of positive and negative weights to a probability score, wherein the audit component further facilitates periodic confirmation of ownership information from the user; and a servicing component for facilitating maintaining, modifying, based on the aggregated positive and negative weights, information relating to the identity and using the likelihood with a hierarchal scheme of registration to allow or deny access to the user of different systems associated with the account.