Prove Identity, Inc.

Payfone, Inc.

Greg Bonin

Christopher Cunningham

Jeffrey Robert Naujok

Rodger R Desai

Yekaterina Bardash

Manish Dalwani

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to authenticate a communications device via a communications network. One embodiment may include obtaining, via a communications network coupled to a client computing resource, signals indicative of the subscriber identifier. The signals indicative of the subscriber identifier may facilitate computing a contactability metric of a communications device corresponding to the subscriber identifier, wherein the contactability metric is to relate to a likelihood that the communications device can be electronically contacted within a predetermined interval, the contactability metric being computed responsive to obtaining signals from one or more databases accessible to an authenticator, the obtained signals being indicative of an outcome of one or more events, such as determining a type of the communications device, as well as records pertaining to a number of additional signals indicating events that relate to activities of a communications device.

Communications device contactability metric

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for an identity verification platform, such as implemented, at least in part, via one or more electronic communication networks.

Identity verification platform

A communications management system for implementing a freeze on electronic transactions. For example, a device management system provides a means of preventing the porting of at least one communication device account&#x2014;such as a cellular phone number&#x2014;from one carrier to another through a list of identifiers that include phone numbers, device identifiers, or personal identifiers that have been enrolled in the device management system through an interface by an authorized user. Advantageously, the device management system provides a revision to the existing phone porting architecture and enables fraud detection and prevention.

Systems and methods for porting communication devices

Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to utilize a computing device to receive, from a communications network, a first signal to indicate that a subscriber, such as a subscriber of a mobile communication services carrier, has initiated an electronic transaction. The method may include detecting, utilizing one or more data stores, a record of a transfer of a subscriber account identifier and, in response, determining whether the transfer corresponds to a porting event initiated by a subscriber or initiated by a communication services carrier. The method may further include transmitting at least a second signal on the communications network, in which the at least the second signal indicates authentication, authorization, and/or verification of the electronic or digital transaction responsive to determining whether the transfer corresponds to a porting event initiated by a subscriber or corresponds to an event initiated by a communication services carrier.

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Denver, CO, United States of America

Greg Bonin