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US 12,326,922 · App. 18/655,094 · Granted Jun 10, 2025

Securely isolating one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with a user when accessing a digital service

Inventors: Matthew Lorenzen (Morgan Hill, CA); Peter Beck Jonas (Coatesville, PA)
Assignee: Thirdwave Systems Inc.
G06F21/31
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Patent No.
US 12,326,922
App. No.
18/655,094
Granted
Jun 10, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Information relating to a non-qualified digital identifier in a context of a digital service being provided is received. The non-qualified digital identifier is associated with one or more qualified digital identifiers. It is determined that the one or more qualified digital identifiers would be authorized for the digital service. The non-qualified digital identifier is authorized to access to the digital service as a result of the association of the nonqualified digital identifier with the one or more qualified digital identifiers.

Claims (34)

1. A method of authorizing a non-qualified digital identifier associated with a user, comprising:

receiving an offer for a digital service from a digital service provider, wherein the offer is available for a particular user having a genuineness score above a threshold;

determining from a set of non-qualified digital identifiers a subset of non-qualified digital identifiers that qualify for the digital service offer;

determining that a non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user is qualified for the digital service offer in part by determining that at least one of one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user would be authorized for the digital service; and

in response to determining that the at least one of the one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user would be authorized for the digital service, authorizing the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user to access to the digital service.

2. The method of claim 1 , receiving information relating to the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user in a context of a digital service being provided.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the information includes one or more phone numbers associated with the user, one or more email addresses associated with the user, one or more social media account handles associated with the user and/or any identifying information associated with the user.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising associating the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user with one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein associating the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user with one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user includes verifying that the user is an owner of the one or more qualified digital identifiers.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user is utilized to access one or more digital services in lieu of utilizing the one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user to access the one or more digital services.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user is linked to one or more corresponding digital assets that cause the user to have a corresponding genuineness score above the threshold.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the at least one of the one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user would be authorized for the digital service includes determining whether to include the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user in the subset of non-qualified digital identifiers from the set of non-qualified digital identifiers.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein determining whether to include the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user in the subset of non-qualified digital identifiers from the set of non-qualified digital identifiers includes determining the corresponding genuineness score for the user.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the corresponding genuineness score indicates a likelihood that the user is a target audience for the digital service.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the corresponding genuineness score associated with the user is based on one or more factors associated with the one or more qualified digital identifiers.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the one or more factors include a number of days since a qualified digital identifier of the one or more qualified digital identifiers was created, a number of transactions associated with the qualified digital identifier, a monetary value associated with the qualified digital identifier, a number of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) held by the qualified digital identifier, a number of NFTs previously held by the qualified digital identifier, an average hold time of an NFT associated with the qualified digital identifier, an average sale time of an NFT associated with the qualified digital identifier, a specific NFT collective associated with the qualified digital identifier, a likelihood that the qualified digital identifier is associated with a bot, a proximity of the qualified digital identifier to other quality digital identifiers.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the corresponding genuineness score associated with the user indicates that at least one of the one or more qualified digital identifiers would be authorized for the digital service.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the one or more qualified digital identifiers is included in a whitelist of qualified digital identifiers.

15. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory and configured to:

receive an offer for a digital service from a digital service provider, wherein the offer is available for a particular user having a genuineness score above a threshold;

determine from a set of non-qualified digital identifiers a subset of non-qualified digital identifiers that qualify for the digital service offer;

determine that a non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user is qualified for the digital service offer in part by determining that at least one of one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with a user would be authorized for the digital service; and

in response to determining that the at least one of the one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user would be authorized for the digital service, authorize the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user to access to the digital service.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the at least one of the one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user is linked to one or more corresponding digital assets that cause the user to have a corresponding genuineness score above the threshold.

17. The system of claim 15 , wherein the processor is further configured to associate the non-qualified digital identifier with one or more qualified digital identifiers includes verifying that the user is an owner of the one or more qualified digital identifiers.

18. The system of claim 15 , wherein the non-qualified digital identifier is utilized to access one or more digital services in lieu of utilizing the one or more qualified digital identifiers to access the one or more digital services.

19. The system of claim 15 , wherein to determine that the at least one of the one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user would be authorized for the digital service, the processor is configured to determine whether to include the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user in the subset of non-qualified digital identifiers from the set of non-qualified digital identifiers.

20. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving an offer for a digital service from a digital service provider, wherein the offer is available for a particular user having a genuineness score above a threshold;

determining from a set of non-qualified digital identifiers a subset of non-qualified digital identifiers that qualify for the digital service offer;

determining that a non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user is qualified for the digital service offer in part by determining that at least one of one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user would be authorized for the digital service; and

in response to determining that the at least one of the one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with the user would be authorized for the digital service, authorizing the non-qualified digital identifier associated with the user to access to the digital service.

Continuity (2)
Continuation 18222048 · Jul 14, 2023
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