Abstract: A system and method for claiming a user-specific website associated to a user's telephone number is disclosed. The present invention provides for user identity verification through telephone number detection. The user-specific website requested is associated to the telephone number of the requesting user. This prevents the potential for anonymity, which is found in present methods. Potential users must “authenticate” that they have access to the phone number of the website that they are attempting to claim. Website claiming can be done by first requesting a user-specific website online and then accessing the system's telephone service for phone number verification. In the alternative, website claiming can be performed by first calling the system phone number for phone verification, followed by online website claim completion.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 30, 2000
Date of Patent:
February 19, 2013
Assignee:
Fan Chiang Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Dean Hiller, James McCrossin, Steven J. Marks, Peter K. Petterson, Karen Janowski, Raymond J. Holland, Mor Hezi, Byron Stephen Lee
Abstract: A first computer (e.g., a central server) collects information to be presented to one or more users. The information is organized into a plurality of first web-sites where each of these web-sites is addressable by a unique Universal Resource Locator (URL). A physical location is associated with each of the first web-sites. One of the first web-sites may be provided to a user as a user web-site. When the user or other individual seeks to access the user web-site, links to a plurality of the first web-sites are provided based on a relationship between the physical locations associated with the first web-sites and the physical location associated with the user web-site.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 22, 2010
Date of Patent:
August 28, 2012
Assignee:
Fan Chiang Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
James McCrossin, Dean Hiller, Richard Kornutik