PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958689
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["713", "158000"]

Abstract:
A protocol for issuing and controlling digital certificates is described in which an identity management system is used to identify a user requesting a digital certificate and is also used to issue the digital certificate itself. Accordingly, an IDM-based PKI system is provided.

Claim (Index 5):
An apparatus, comprising:\n at least one processor; and at least one memory comprising computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to generate a public and private key pair for a user; generate, on behalf of the user, a certificate signing request using the public and private key pair, wherein the certificate signing request comprises zero or more attributes selected by the user, at least one attribute that does not require input from the user, and the public key of the user; send the certificate signing request to an identity management system connected to a database containing the attributes of the user; and receive a digital certificate from the identity management system in response to the certificate signing request.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.39394
- Patent Class: 713.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13638300', '12931631', '15898842', '12714227', '15898950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3744185066584026
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5540415397454137
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3923808099671038
- Mean Citation Score: 304.768182
- Max Citation Score: 405.96686
- Similarity Product: 352.4192695514608

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test