Anonyome Labs, Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Simon Gee

Paul Anthony Ashley

Greg Clark

John David Mumford

Steve Shillingford

Shane Bradley Weeden

Steven Harvey McCown

Simon Gilbert Canning

John William Court

Tim Bartley

Christopher Y Choi

Neil Readshaw

Phong Le

Glen Leeder

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium with instructions executed by a processor maintains different digital identities for different internet browsing personas associated with a real user. Persona selection rules are invoked to automatically designate a selected digital identity for a current internet browsing session. Browser state for the selected digital identity is loaded.

Persona based privacy browser

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to maintain digital identities. Each digital identity has identity attributes different than identity attributes associated with a real individual utilizing the digital identity. Each digital identity has an associated attribute for compartmentalized network activity. Interactions between the digital identities and a virtual card provider are supported to secure virtual cards for the digital identities. Interactions between the digital identities and a persona management application are brokered, including delivering the virtual cards for the digital identities to the persona management application.

Apparatus and method for processing virtual credit cards for digital identities

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to maintain a digital wallet with digital identities. Each digital identity has identity attributes different than identity attributes associated with a real individual utilizing the digital identity, an associated attribute for compartmentalized network activity, a digital identity key pair, and a designated block chain. Interactions between the digital identities of the digital wallet and a digital identity services platform are supported.

Digital wallet for digital identities and interactions with a digital identity services platform

An apparatus has a persona services platform in communication with a user device via a network and a selected isolation browser provider via the network. The persona services platform is configured to receive from the user device a request for an isolation browser. The selected isolation browser provider is designated from a pool of isolation browser providers. Isolation browser configuration information is requested from the selected isolation browser provider. The isolation browser configuration information is augmented with persona specific configuration information to form complete isolation browser configuration information. The complete isolation browser configuration information is sent to the user device.

Apparatus and method for persona based isolation browsing

A machine has a processor and a network interface circuit connected to the processor to provide network connectivity to a client device. A memory is connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to implement a persona management service that operates to receive a request for a new email account from the client device. A new email account is created in response to the request. Cryptographic credentials for the new email account are received from the client device. The cryptographic credentials are sent to a certificate authority. A certificate authority validation is received from the certificate authority. The new email account with a cryptographic credential from the certificate authority is registered. The cryptographic credential is conveyed to the client device.

Apparatus and method for automating secure email for multiple personas

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to host a proxy identity depot service application program interface to provide communication channels for proxy identity enabled applications operative on client devices. A proxy identity depot has a proxy identity management service, a proxy identity reputation service and a proxy identity transfer service. The proxy identity depot includes proxy identities for a real user, where each proxy identity has its own identity attributes to protect primary identity attributes of the real user and thereby each proxy identity is operative as a personal privacy proxy.

Apparatus and method for administering proxy identities

A machine has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to allow a user to designate a selected persona from a pool of potential personas, where each potential persona is associated with the user and has a distinct set of computer network attributes. A virtual private network egress point for the selected persona is designated, where the virtual private network egress point masks computer network attributes of the selected persona. Contact with the virtual private network egress point is coordinated to initiate a network communication for the selected persona.

Method and system for providing persona masking in a computer network

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to collect mobile device environment parameters. Identity attributes including real identity attributes for a real individual and at least one set of synthetic identity attributes are stored. An electronic communication attempt by a designated entity corresponding to either the real identity attributes or the at least one set of synthetic identity attributes is monitored. The electronic communication attempt is analyzed in connection with the mobile device environment parameters and identity attributes to identify a rule transgression. A warning is supplied in connection with the electronic communication attempt in response to the rule transgression.

Apparatus and method for identifying and warning of synthetic identity behavior that reduces user privacy

A machine has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to receive an email account request, a name and a public key. A selected domain name is designated from a group of available domain names. A user name is generated based upon the name. An email account is formed using the user name and the selected domain name. The public key is stored.

Email application for synthetic identities

A technique to at least partial transfer an active network communication session associated with a server and an authenticated user communicating through a first device. The at least partial transfer includes the following actions (not necessarily in the following order): (i) recording the network communication session on an inline network device; (ii) associating the network communication session with the second device on the inline network device; and (iii) sending session continuation information from the inline network device to at least the second device and/or the server. The first device is in data communication with the inline network device during at least a portion of the recording step. The session continuation information sent at the sending step includes information enabling the user to continue the active network communication session through the second device. The inline network device performs at least the associating step and the sending step under control of computer software running on computer hardware.

Sharing web application sessions across multiple devices

A confidence-based authentication discovery scheme is implemented at a proxy. The scheme assumes that some level of unauthenticated browsing is allowed prior to enforcing authentication at the proxy. Once a known and trusted set of identity providers has been accessed and the user is required to authenticate at the proxy (e.g., as a result of policy), the proxy initiates Federated Single Sign-On (F-SSO) to one or more (or, preferably, all) known sites accessed by the browser. This F-SSO operation is performed seamlessly, preferably without the user's knowledge (after the user allows an initial trust decision between the proxy acting as a service provider and the external identity provider). The proxy collates the results and, based on the trust it has with those sites, produces a confidence score. That score is then used as input into policy around whether or not a user should be permitted to access a particular site.

Confidence-based authentication discovery for an outbound proxy

A method, apparatus and computer program product for detecting that a computing device may not be secure based on inconsistent identity associations identified during Federated Single Sign-On (F-SSO). A detection proxy detects when a user with a particular session is accessing an identity provider (IdP) that is associated with an account that is not the current user's account. When a user performs a login to an F-SSO-enabled IdP, the proxy performs an F-SSO, and the results are compared with known aliases for that particular federation partner. If an anomaly is detected (e.g., the in-line device sees that a user logs into a web site as someone else), a workflow is initiated to perform a given action, such as blocking access, issuing an alert, or the like.

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