US 12,306,991 B2
Federated personally identifiable information (PII) service
Trent Norman Larson, Bountiful, UT (US); Eric Nathaniel Fish, Salt Lake City, UT (US); and Andrew Warner, Midvale, UT (US)
Assigned to tZERO IP, LLC, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed by tZERO IP, LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/933,317.
Application 17/933,317 is a continuation of application No. 16/169,730, filed on Oct. 24, 2018, granted, now 11,449,634.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/576,238, filed on Oct. 24, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0011047 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/84 (2019.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06Q 40/04 (2012.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 21/6254 (2013.01) [G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/86 (2019.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01); G06Q 40/04 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2141 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system comprising:
at least one server comprising at least one memory;
at least one client communicatively coupled to the at least one server;
at least one database storing personally identifiable information for accounts;
at least one distributed ledger communicatively coupled to the at least one server; and
wherein the at least one server is configured to:
receive a request to obtain the personally identifiable information regarding public information for a first account from a first user of a first client of the at least one client;
determine that a database of the at least one database includes the personally identifiable information for the first account;
determine whether the first user has permission to obtain the personally identifiable information for the first account from the database that includes the personally identifiable information for the first account;
receive the public information for the first account from the at least one distributed ledger when the first user has permission to obtain the personally identifiable information for the first account from the database that includes the personally identifiable information for the first account; and
provide the personally identifiable information regarding the public information to the first user of the first client of the at least one client.