Patent ID: 8086632

Claim:
A method to provide an authenticated custom credential from a credential issued to a target party comprising the steps of: receiving at a processing warehouse, credentials issued to the target party by issuing authorities; receiving at the processing warehouse, input from the target party; using the received input at the processing warehouse, to divide a received credential into elements; storing the elements at the processing warehouse for later selection by the target party for incorporation into a custom credential object; receiving input at the processing warehouse from the target party identifying selected elements of one or more credentials for incorporation by an object builder at the processing warehouse, into a custom credential object; processing the custom credential object at the processing warehouse, to create an authenticatable custom credential object; providing the authenticatable custom credential object to the target party for recovery of the custom credential and review of the accuracy and currency of the credential elements contained in the custom credential before forwarding the authenticatable custom credential object to a party requiring the credentials of the target party.