IP Library Granted Patent US 10,032,042
Granted Patent B1
US 10,032,042 · App. 14/964,215 · Granted Jul 24, 2018

Digital identification enrollment

Inventors: Robert Andrew Eckel (Andover, MA); A. David Kelts (Arlington, MA)
Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
G06F21/6218G06F21/31G06Q30/018H04L67/306
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Patent No.
US 10,032,042
App. No.
14/964,215
Granted
Jul 24, 2018
Kind
B1
Abstract

In some implementations, a computer-implemented method and system for enrolling customers into a digital identification program may include obtaining, from a digital identification database, customer information that describes a customer, providing to the customer device an access code for activation, receiving a request from the customer device for the digital identification, where the request includes the access code and customer information that describes the customer, providing a request for secure information that describes the customer from a secure information database, receiving the secure information that describes the customer stored in the secure information database, generating the digital identification for the customer based on the secure information and the customer information, and providing the digital identification to the customer device.

Claims (72)

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors and from a customer device, a request for a digital identification, the request including customer information that comprises an image of the customer and demographic data describing the customer;

obtaining, by the one or more processors and from an issuing authority server, customer information that is associated with the customer and stored by the issuing authority server, the issuing authority server being configured to issue credentials for a plurality of customers;

determining, by the one or more processors, that the customer information received from the customer device matches the customer information obtained from the issuing authority server;

in response to determining that the customer information received from the customer device matches the customer information obtained from the issuing authority server, transmitting, by the one or more processors to the issuing authority server, a request for secure identification information which includes data indicative of a physical identification card issued for the customer by the issuing authority server;

receiving, by the one or more processors and from the issuing authority server, the secure information;

generating, by the one or more processors, the digital identification for the customer based on the secure information, the digital identification including a digital representation of the physical identification card issued to the customer by the issuing authority server and one or more portions of the secure information received from the issuing authority server; and

transmitting, by the one or more processors to the customer device over one or more wireless networks, the digital identification and one or more security feature data for configuring a display of the digital identification at the customer device, the security feature data controlling credentials of the customer to be included in the display of the digital identification and one or more timings at which the credentials of the customer are displayed at the customer device.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the secure information received from the issuing authority server comprises demographic information associated with the customer and a portrait image of the customer.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

providing to the customer device an access code, wherein the providing of the access code comprises providing a deeplink that directs the customer to install a digital identification application on the customer device.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving the request from the customer device for the digital identification comprises:

receiving one or more images of a front side and a back side of a physical identification card possessed by the customer from the customer device; and

identifying, based on using an optical character recognition technique on the one or more images of the physical identification card possessed by the customer, customer information that describes the customer.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein generating the digital identification for the customer comprises:

determining that the identified customer information that describes the customer from the one or more images of the physical identification matches the secure information that describes the customer stored in one or more databases associated with the issuing authority server; and

in response to the identified customer information matching the secure information, generating the digital identification for the customer.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the digital identification to the customer device comprises providing an access credential associated with the digital identification, the access token provisioning access control and authentication of the digital identification for the customer.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining that the digital identification for the customer is to be provided to the customer device associated with the customer; and

in response to determining that the digital identification for the customer is to be provided to the customer device associated with the customer:

assigning an access code to the digital identification for the customer;

restricting access on the customer device to the digital identification based on the access code; and

transmitting the access code to the customer device.

8. A system comprising:

one or more computers; and

one or more non-transitory computer-readable media coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request for a digital identification, the request including customer information that comprises an image of the customer and demographic data describing the customer;

obtaining, from an issuing authority server, customer information that is associated with the customer and stored by the issuing authority server, the issuing authority server being configured to issue credentials for a plurality of customers;

determining that the customer information received from the customer device matches the customer information obtained from the issuing authority server;

in response to determining that the customer information received from the customer device matches the customer information obtained from the issuing authority server, transmitting, to the issuing authority server, a request for secure identification information which includes data indicative of a physical identification card issued for the customer by the issuing authority server;

receiving, from the issuing authority server, the secure information;

generating the digital identification for the customer based on the secure information, the digital identification including a digital representation of the physical identification card issued to the customer by the issuing authority server and one or more portions of the secure information received from the issuing authority server; and

transmitting, to the customer device over one or more wireless networks, the digital identification and one or more security feature data for configuring a display of the digital identification at the customer device, the security feature data controlling credentials of the customer to be included in the display of the digital identification and one or more timings at which the credentials of the customer are displayed at the customer device.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the secure information received from the issuing authority server comprises demographic information associated with the customer and a portrait image of the customer.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

providing to the customer device an access code, wherein the providing of the access code comprises providing a deeplink that directs the customer to install a digital identification application on the customer device.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein receiving the request from the customer device for the digital identification comprises:

receiving one or more images of a front side and a back side of a physical identification card possessed by the customer from the customer device; and

identifying, based on using an optical character recognition technique on the one or more images of the physical identification card possessed by the customer, customer information that describes the customer.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein generating the digital identification for the customer comprises:

determining that the identified customer information that describes the customer from the one or more images of the physical identification matches the secure information that describes the customer stored in one or more databases associated with the issuing authority server; and

in response to the identified customer information matching the secure information, generating the digital identification for the customer.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein transmitting the digital identification to the customer device comprises providing an access credential associated with the digital identification, the access credential provisioning access control and authentication of the digital identification for the customer.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the digital identification for the customer is to be provided to the customer device associated with the customer; and

determining that the digital identification for the customer is to be provided to the customer device associated with the customer:

assigning an access code to the digital identification for the customer;

restricting access on the customer device to the digital identification based on the access code; and

transmitting the access code to the customer device.

15. A non-transitory computer storage device encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request for a digital identification, the request including customer information that comprises an image of the customer and demographic data describing the customer;

obtaining, from an issuing authority server, customer information that is associated with the customer and stored by the issuing authority server, the issuing authority server being configured to issue credentials for a plurality of customers;

determining that the customer information received from the customer device matches the customer information obtained from the issuing authority server;

in response to determining that the customer information received from the customer device matches the customer information obtained from the issuing authority server, transmitting, to the issuing authority server, a request for secure identification information which includes data indicative of a physical identification card issued for the customer by the issuing authority server;

receiving, from the issuing authority server, the secure information;

generating the digital identification for the customer based on the secure information, the digital identification including a digital representation of the physical identification card issued to the customer by the issuing authority server and one or more portions of the secure information received from the issuing authority server; and

transmitting, to the customer device over one or more wireless networks, the digital identification and one or more security feature data for configuring a display of the digital identification at the customer device, the security feature data controlling credentials of the customer to be included in the display of the digital identification and one or more timings at which the credentials of the customer are displayed at the customer device.

16. The device of claim 15 , wherein the secure information received from the issuing authority server comprises demographic information associated with the customer and a portrait image of the customer.

17. The device of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:

providing to the customer device an access code, wherein the providing of the access code comprises providing a deeplink that directs the customer to install a digital identification application on the customer device.

18. The device of claim 15 , wherein receiving the request from the customer device for the digital identification comprises:

receiving one or more images of a front side and a back side of a physical identification card possessed by the customer from the customer device; and

identifying, based on using an optical character recognition technique on the one or more images of the physical identification card possessed by the customer, customer information that describes the customer.

19. The device of claim 18 , wherein generating the digital identification for the customer comprises:

determining that the identified customer information that describes the customer from the one or more images of the physical identification matches the secure information that describes the customer stored in one or more databases associated with the issuing authority server; and

in response to the identified customer information matching the secure information, generating the digital identification for the customer.

20. The device of claim 15 , wherein transmitting the digital identification to the customer device comprises providing an access credential associated with the digital identification, the access credential provisioning access control and authentication of the digital identification for the customer.

21. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving, by the one or more processors, the request from the customer device for the digital identification comprises:

receiving the image of the customer from a camera included in the customer device, the image being a facial image of the customer.

22. The method of claim 7 , wherein determining that customer information received from the customer device matches the customer information obtained from the issuing authority server comprises:

determining that (i) biometric data, image data including the image of the customer, and demographic data included in the customer information received from the customer device and (ii) the access code received from the customer device matches, respectively, (I) biometric data, image data, demographic data obtained from the issuing authority server, and (II) an access code obtained from the issuing authority server.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 28, 2025
From: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY USA LLC
To: IDEMIA CIVIL IDENTITY NA LLC
Reel/Frame 073792/0001 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 16, 2020
From: MORPHOTRUST USA, LLC
To: IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY USA LLC
Reel/Frame 054102/0148 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2016
From: ECKEL, ROBERT ANDREW; KELTS, A. DAVID
To: MORPHOTRUST USA, LLC
Reel/Frame 039395/0314 →
Continuity (1)
Provisional Application 62090348 · Dec 10, 2014