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IDENTITY VERIFICATION FOR ONLINE EDUCATION

Applicant: Coursera, Inc., Mountain View, CA (Us)

Inventors: Bipin Suresh, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher B. Heather, Mountain View, CA (US); Jiquan Ngiam, Mountain View, CA (US); Minjeong Kim, Cupertino, CA (US); Pamela S. Fox, San Francisco, CA (US); Andrew Yan-Tak Ng, Mountain View, CA (US)

Coursera, Inc., Mountain View, CA (Us)

Assignee:

Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days.

Appl. N0.: 14/149,603

Filed: Jan. 7, 2014

Related US. Application Data

Provisional application No. 61/750,275, ?led on Jan. 8, 2013.

Int. Cl. H04L 9/32 (2006.01) H04L 29/06 (2006.01) US. Cl. CPC .................................... .. H04L 63/08 (2013.01)

USPC ........................................................ .. 713/168

Field of Classi?cation Search CPC G07C 2209/02; G06F 21/60; G06F 21/78;

G06F 21/6227; G06F 2221/2107

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USPC ............................................. .. 726/7; 713/168

See application ?le for complete search history.

(56) References Cited

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7,110,576 B2 * 9/2006 Norris et al. ................ .. 382/119 8,386,308 B2 * 2/2013 Kansal et a1. .. 705/14.19 8,577,810 B1* 11/2013 Dalit et a1. . . . . . . . . .. 705/67

2006/0115803 A1* 6/2006 Kalisiak .... .. 434/323

2008/0010674 A1* 1/2008 Lee ................................. .. 726/7

2011/0016240 A1 1/2011 Mills et a1. 2011/0227831 A1 9/2011 Mills et a1. 2012/0110341 A1* 5/2012 Beigi .......................... .. 713/186 2013/0095463 A1* 4/2013 Ediger et a1. ................ .. 434/322

* cited by examiner

Primary Examiner * Dant Shaifer Harriman

(57) ABSTRACT

Performing identity veri?cation for online education is dis closed. In response to receiving a noti?cation of a submission event, a user is prompted to provide authentication informa tion including at least one of a plurality of types of informa tion. Authentication information received is compared to at least a portion of stored enrollment information associated with the user with which the received authentication infor mation is associated. The stored enrollment information includes at least two different types of information collected during an enrollment phase, including the at least one type of information solicited during the user prompting. 1n the event that matching criteria are met based at least in part on the comparison, a ?rst action is performed. In the event that matching criteria are not met based at least in part on the comparison, a second action that is different from the ?rst action is performed.

24 Claims, 21 Drawing Sheets

In Response to Receiving a Notification of a Submission Event, Prompta Userto Provide Authentication Information Including at

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Compare Authentication Information to at least a Portion of Stored / 204 Enrollment Information associated with the User with which the

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Perform a First Action

Matching Criteria met based on the Comparison?

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