Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to obtain, from a communications device, an identifier of the communications device transmitted via a communications network. The communications network may transmit a request for one or more parameters unique to a subscriber of the communications network. The method may also include processing signals indicative of the requested one or more parameters in response to the subscriber entering the one or more parameters into a graphical user interface of the communications device. The method may further include transmitting, to the communications device, one or more signals to provide a complement of subscriber parameters.

Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to authenticate a communications device via a communications network. One embodiment may include obtaining, via a communications network coupled to a client computing resource, signals indicative of the subscriber identifier.

Abstract: Provided is a method for authenticating a user communicating with an enterprise via a network. The method includes receiving, via the network, authenticators for a user from a first user device associated with the user, and storing the received authenticators. A first authenticator from the stored authenticators is selected to be used for authenticating the user based on an authentication policy received from the enterprise. An authentication request is transmitted to a user device requesting the first authenticator and the user is authentication by comparing the received authenticator with the stored first authenticator.

Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be utilized to bring about accessing a data store to determine that signal packets have been received, via an electronic communications network, from a communications device that is to be verified. The communications device being co-located with a real-world identity. The method may additionally include electronically determining that a subscriber account identifier or a subscriber-unique alias is bound to an account held by the real-world identity and electronically tying the subscriber account identifier or the subscriber-unique alias to the real-world identity in response to electronically verifying the communications device after determining that the signal packets have been received from the communications device and in response to electronically determining that the subscriber account identifier or the subscriber-unique alias is bound to the account held by the real-world identity.

Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented to represent an identity network corresponding to a communications device subscriber in an electronic or digital domain. The method may include transmitting a message to a communications device. Responsive to the transmitted message, an authenticator may receive a signal to verify that a subscriber having a real-world identity is co-located with the communications device. The method may continue with establishing, in an electronic or digital domain, two or more nodes of an identity network corresponding to aspects of the real-world identity of the subscriber, the identity network being attached to the real-world identity via a persistent identifier, and the two or more nodes of the identity network being linked via one or more relationships.

Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to receive at a server device coupled to a communications network, a first signal indicating that a subscriber of a mobile device has initiated a transaction. The method may continue with accessing a data store to determine occurrence of one or more deterministic events with respect to the mobile device and accessing the data store to determine one or more behavior norms specific to the subscriber with respect to the mobile device. The method may additionally include generating, by the server coupled to the communications network, a second signal indicating an authorization status of the transaction, the authorization status being dependent on the occurrence of the one or more deterministic events in relation to the one or more behavior norms.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that authenticates and/or identifies a user of an electronic device based on passive factors, which do not require conscious user actions. During operation of the system, in response to detecting a trigger event, the system collects sensor data from one or more sensors in the electronic device. Next, the system extracts a feature vector from the sensor data. The system then analyzes the feature vector to authenticate and/or identify the user, wherein the feature vector is analyzed using a model trained with sensor data previously obtained from the electronic device while the user was operating the electronic device.

Abstract: Provided is a method for operating an authentication server for authenticating a user who is communicating with an enterprise via a network. The method include receiving, via the network, a first authenticator including first information from a low energy wireless device received via a user device wirelessly, and storing the first authenticator. When the authentication service later receives, from the enterprise, a request to authenticate the user, the authentication server transmits an authentication request to the user device via the network requesting that the user read information from the low energy wireless device using the user device. The information received from the low energy wireless device in response to the authentication request is then used authenticate the user by comparing the information received from the low energy wireless device due to the authentication request with the stored first authenticator.

Abstract: A transaction authentication system authenticates a transaction by determining whether a mobile device and POS device involved in the transaction are at the same location. A POS registry stores location data for POS devices. A PAN registry stores mobile device IDs corresponding to account numbers. A mobile device ID can be provided from the PAN registry in response to receiving an account number from a POS device. The mobile device ID can then be used to retrieve location information from a home location register maintained by a mobile service provider. The retrieved location data for a POS device and the retrieved location data for a mobile device are compared.

Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate and/or support one or more operations and/or techniques for an identity verification platform, such as implemented, at least in part, via one or more electronic communication networks.

Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, to form a secure channel, such as between or among a communications device, a client computing resource, and/or an identity verifier. In particular embodiments, a method may include recognizing via a subscriber identifier, a known communications device within a communications network. The method may additionally include issuing an eSIM to the communications device via the communications network in response to recognizing the communications device and relating the eSIM to the subscriber identifier of the communications device. The method may further include, responsive to receipt of one or more signals from a client computing resource, utilizing encryption provided by the eSIM to form a secure channel between or among the communications device and an identity verifier.

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method and/or system for mobile identity authentication is disclosed. For example, mobile identity authentication may be employed in a variety of situations, including purchases, financial transactions, granted access to accounts, granting access to content, etc.

Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented, in whole or in part, to prove possession of a communications device, such as a mobile communications device. In a particular method, proving possession of a communications device may include receiving, from a client server, an indicator to indicate a communication services carrier servicing the communications device. The method may continue with generating a session identifier and a resource locator to direct the communications device to establish communications with an identity verifier at an address corresponding to the resource locator. The resource locator may be determined based, at least in part, on the indicator received from the client server. The method may additionally include the communications device transmitting one or more identifiers, determined, at least in part, from content stored within, or data derived from, memory of the communications device.

Abstract: Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to receive or obtain, responsive to transmitting the one or more search terms to a search entity, one or more primary content items that include messages that accord with the one or more search terms. The method may additionally include parsing the messages that accord with the one or more search terms to detect one or more relevant secondary search terms and obtaining secondary content items that accord with the one or more relevant secondary search terms. The method may further include generating signals to represent a report of entities that accord with the one or more relevant secondary search terms.

Abstract: A communications management system for implementing a freeze on electronic transactions. For example, a device management system provides a means of preventing the porting of at least one communication device account—such as a cellular phone number—from one carrier to another through a list of identifiers that include phone numbers, device identifiers, or personal identifiers that have been enrolled in the device management system through an interface by an authorized user. Advantageously, the device management system provides a revision to the existing phone porting architecture and enables fraud detection and prevention.

Abstract: A system and method allows users to make purchases by charging or funding a prepaid debit card with their cell phone accounts by simulating a user roaming with their mobile device.

Abstract: Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture may be implemented to utilize a computing device to receive, from a communications network, a first signal to indicate that a subscriber, such as a subscriber of a mobile communication services carrier, has initiated an electronic transaction. The method may include detecting, utilizing one or more data stores, a record of a transfer of a subscriber account identifier and, in response, determining whether the transfer corresponds to a porting event initiated by a subscriber or initiated by a communication services carrier. The method may further include transmitting at least a second signal on the communications network, in which the at least the second signal indicates authentication, authorization, and/or verification of the electronic or digital transaction responsive to determining whether the transfer corresponds to a porting event initiated by a subscriber or corresponds to an event initiated by a communication services carrier.

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, for example, a method and/or system is provided to at least authenticate a mobile subscriber that has been registered via a registration process comprising. A current international mobile subscriber identifier (IMSI) associated with a mobile telephone number received electronically via a network is queried. A database entry created via the registration process including an IMSI associated with a received mobile telephone number at the time of mobile subscriber registration is also queried. At least the current IMSI and the IMSI of the database entry are compared. Account status of the mobile subscriber based at least in part on a match between the current IMSI and the IMSI of the database entry is verified. Verifying the account status includes determining creditworthiness with respect to the account of the mobile subscriber.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that authenticates a user of an unattended device. In response to sensing a presence of the user in proximity to the unattended device, the system makes a call from the unattended device to an authentication service to authenticate the user. In response to the call, the authentication service authenticates the user based on recently collected sensor data, which was obtained from one or more sensors in a portable electronic device belonging to the user. If authentication succeeds, the system allows the user to proceed with an interaction with the unattended device.

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method and/or system for mobile identity authentication is disclosed. For example, mobile identity authentication may be employed in a variety of situations, including purchases, financial transactions, granted access to accounts, granting access to content, etc.