Prove Identity, Inc.

Payfone, Inc.

Jeffrey Robert Naujok

Rodger R Desai

Christopher Cunningham

Prashant Janakrai Desai

Greg Bonin

Michael Stearne

Kyle Price

Michael Bijelich

Ryan Alexander

Aditya Khurjekar

Alan Switzer

David Louis Berra

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to obtain, from a communications device, an identifier of the communications device transmitted via a communications network. The communications network may transmit a request for one or more parameters unique to a subscriber of the communications network. The method may also include processing signals indicative of the requested one or more parameters in response to the subscriber entering the one or more parameters into a graphical user interface of the communications device. The method may further include transmitting, to the communications device, one or more signals to provide a complement of subscriber parameters.

Transmitting a complement of user parameters to a communications device

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to authenticate a communicating device via a communications network. One embodiment may include obtaining, at the communicating device, signals representative of one or more high-entropy tokens via the communications network, the one or more high-entropy tokens including one or more component tokens. The method may additionally include encrypting one or more parameters utilizing a first encryption key derived from at least one component token of the one or more component tokens and transmitting, via the communications network, one or more signals representative of the encrypted one or more parameters. The method may further include obtaining, at the communicating device, one or more signals indicating an outcome of a comparison between the one or more encrypted parameters with one or more similar parameters encrypted by an identity verifier.

Device authentication via high-entropy token

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, to authenticate a communications device. In an embodiment, the method may include accessing a prepackaged group of computer instructions and invoking an authentication operation of the communications device. The method may additionally include determining availability of a cellular communications channel to communicate with a client server and initiating a browser session to pass hardware-specific parameters to and from the client server. The method may further include receiving an outcome of the authentication operation, in which invoking of the authentication operation and receiving the outcome of the authentication operation occur during a single exchange between a client application and the prepackaged group of computer instructions.

Single-exchange authentication of a communications device

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be utilized to bring about accessing a data store to determine that signal packets have been received, via an electronic communications network, from a communications device that is to be verified. The communications device being co-located with a real-world identity. The method may additionally include electronically determining that a subscriber account identifier or a subscriber-unique alias is bound to an account held by the real-world identity and electronically tying the subscriber account identifier or the subscriber-unique alias to the real-world identity in response to electronically verifying the communications device after determining that the signal packets have been received from the communications device and in response to electronically determining that the subscriber account identifier or the subscriber-unique alias is bound to the account held by the real-world identity.

Authenticated communications device to tie real-world and digital identities

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented to represent an identity network corresponding to a communications device subscriber in an electronic or digital domain. The method may include transmitting a message to a communications device. Responsive to the transmitted message, an authenticator may receive a signal to verify that a subscriber having a real-world identity is co-located with the communications device. The method may continue with establishing, in an electronic or digital domain, two or more nodes of an identity network corresponding to aspects of the real-world identity of the subscriber, the identity network being attached to the real-world identity via a persistent identifier, and the two or more nodes of the identity network being linked via one or more relationships.

Identity network representation of communications device subscriber in a digital domain

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 receive at a server device coupled to a communications network, a first signal indicating that a subscriber of a mobile device has initiated a transaction. The method may continue with accessing a data store to determine occurrence of one or more deterministic events with respect to the mobile device and accessing the data store to determine one or more behavior norms specific to the subscriber with respect to the mobile device. The method may additionally include generating, by the server coupled to the communications network, a second signal indicating an authorization status of the transaction, the authorization status being dependent on the occurrence of the one or more deterministic events in relation to the one or more behavior norms.

Transaction authentication, authorization, and/or auditing utilizing subscriber-specific behaviors

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

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, to form a secure channel, such as between or among a communications device, a client computing resource, and/or an identity verifier. In particular embodiments, a method may include recognizing via a subscriber identifier, a known communications device within a communications network. The method may additionally include issuing an eSIM to the communications device via the communications network in response to recognizing the communications device and relating the eSIM to the subscriber identifier of the communications device. The method may further include, responsive to receipt of one or more signals from a client computing resource, utilizing encryption provided by the eSIM to form a secure channel between or among the communications device and an identity verifier.

Secure channel formation using embedded subscriber information module (ESIM)

Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, to prove possession of a communications device, such as a mobile communications device. In a particular method, proving possession of a communications device may include receiving, from a client server, an indicator to indicate a communication services carrier servicing the communications device. The method may continue with generating a session identifier and a resource locator to direct the communications device to establish communications with an identity verifier at an address corresponding to the resource locator. The resource locator may be determined based, at least in part, on the indicator received from the client server. The method may additionally include the communications device transmitting one or more identifiers, determined, at least in part, from content stored within, or data derived from, memory of the communications device.

Proving possession of a communications device via a directed connection

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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Colorado Springs, CO, United States of America

Jeffrey Robert Naujok