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INVENTION DISCLOSURE
Date:
INVENTION DISCLOSURE
1. What is the title of the invention you are disclosing?
A REPOSITORY OF DIGITAL CERTIFICATES FOR IDENTITY
MANAGEMENT AND OPTIONALLY AUTHENTICATION
FOR CLIENT APPLICATIONS
2. What is the problem that is being solved by the invention? What is the use of thepresent invention? How is the invention better than or different from presently
known or available products or processes? How are the presently known or
available products or processes working or being used and how do they address
the problem being solved?
LEVERAGE DIGITAL CERTIFICATE BASED IDENTITY RESOLUTION
FOR AUTHENTICITY OF USERS IN E(ELECTRONIC)-ENABLED
APPLICATIONS.
3. How does the invention address the current state of problems not addressed by theknown products or processes?
Authenticity of users participating in social media/ web forums is just as authenticand reliable as they declare themselves to be in current state of world wide web
based applications
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The invention and proposed solution to the problem of authentic user
identification is based on concept of the user uploading / making available
the digital certificate issued to him/entity in the online identity management
Repository , thus all users possessing or making available a digital certificate
Issued by a recognized Certification Authority(CA like verizon ) are valid
and verifiable users establishing a acknowledgeable circle of trust.
Thus the conduct of the users identified by a digital certificate is both verifyable
And reliable on social media and all other identifiable web transactions by user
In the web-enabled application which uses the above described repository for
User identification and potentially authentication.
4. How does the invention address the current state of problems not addressed by theknown products or processes?
Anybody can create a user profile on applications like facebook / twitter/
Google+ / linkedin etc as far as and in the context of this document all the
users in these kind of applications can be called or termable anonymous as there
is no possible circle of trust establishable or possible because any user
profile is just a self declared information that is neither reliable nor authentic
the invention disclosed in this application solves authenticity of the users by
very nature viz. employing digital certificate issued by authorized vendors
or certification authorities.
5. How else can the same result be achieved besides using the invention? What otherchanges can be made to arrive at the same result provided by the use of the
current invention?
None.
6. Has the invention been disclosed to anyone outside your company? (Disclosurecan include publication in a journal describing the invention, sale, submission of
data to regulatory bodies governing at the national or regional level, marketing,
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word-of-mouth, prior commercial use, etc.)
No..
7. Describe the invention in detail, stating all the features which are novel and theirrespective functions. Please provide enough detail, without abbreviations, for a
clear understanding of the invention. Please use any figures to illustrate the
features of the invention, if necessary.
The invention employees a repository to store digital certificates issued to end-
users this is similar on the lines of public/private key based encryption
a) Except that the invention proposes to extend the class of digital certificatesavailable for the purpose to embedded a public-key in the digital certificate
When issued by a issuer (digital certification authority) and a private key
Which will be retained and not disclosed to anyone by the end-user entities
and they Keep-it for them-selves.
b) It is proposed for the individual user entities a digital certificate be generatedWhich includes a valid public-key generated based on an algorithm that
employees the finger-print or thumb impression of individual users and the
thumb impression or finger-print Of the user itself serves as the private key.
OBJECTIVE: 1) digital certificate to serve the purpose of identification of
end-user-entities
2) optionally to serve the purpose of authentication or authorization
to e-nable applications.
3) employs or relies on storage of private key on private computer or
secure location or the availability of a finger-print scanner embedded
Into devices(those which are e-enabled) for authentication.