Patent ID: 8650621

Claim:
A method of verifying the age of a prospective Internet user, comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium including a program and a computer executable program code, the method comprising: establishing, by a user at a user client computer, an age check account in an alleged identity and age server computer, said age server computer comprising a first database, the account established by receiving information from a user operating a service requester client computer via an Internet application, the information including an alleged age of the user; storing the information in the first database in the alleged identity and age server computer; requesting information from a partner requester client computer, the partner requester client computer comprising a second database, the second database including information about the user, the information being previously provided by the user; comparing the user information in the alleged identity and age server computer comprising the first database with information received from the partner service requester client computer comprising the second database; the comparison verifying that information previously provided by the user, from the partner service requester, corresponds to the information from the service requester client computer, including the alleged age of the user; sending a notification to the service requester from the age check system that the alleged age of the user has been verified; and the service requester requiring aggregation, in the first database, of the information from the partner requester client computer with the information in the alleged identity and age server computer, including the alleged age of the user, wherein the information from the service requester is received by the alleged identity and age database through an application programming interface accessed by the user via the Internet application, and wherein verification further comprises verifying the information manually by comparing against public records.