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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.