US 12,328,307 B2
Systems and methods for subscription and identity authentication management
Theodore F. Economy, Philadelphia, PA (US); Sumorwuo Zaza, Philadelphia, PA (US); Jane Lee, Astoria, NY (US); Richard Alford, Hackettstown, NJ (US); Nicole Economy, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); and Lauren Economy, Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Assigned to NIC.KL INC., Philadephia, PA (US)
Appl. No. 17/767,556
Filed by NIC.KL INC., Philadelphia, PA (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/055268
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/072382, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/973,571, filed on Oct. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0089243 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01)
CPC H04L 63/0815 (2013.01) [G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); H04L 2463/101 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for removing paywalls associated with a plurality of provider sites to access subscribed content on the plurality of provider sites, the method comprising:
receiving, by a system comprising a processor, login information to an application from a user, wherein the user is an authorized user of a multi-user subscriber account, wherein the multi-user subscriber account is associated with a subscriber to the application having a plurality of users and the plurality of users of the multi-user subscriber account each have different associated permissions to access content from one or more of the plurality of provider sites through the application, wherein the user is associated with at least one associated permission to access content from one or more of the plurality of provider sites;
verifying, by the system, that the login information is associated with the multi-user subscriber account associated with the subscriber to the application;
receiving, by the system, instructions to access the one or more of the plurality of provider sites from the user through the application;
determining, by the system, that the one or more of the plurality of provider sites are associated with the multi-user subscriber account and the at least one associated permission of the user from the different associated permissions of each user of the plurality of users of the multi-user subscriber account;
determining, by the system, access credentials to the one or more of the plurality of provider sites based on a predetermined access scheme associated with the one or more of the plurality of provider sites; and
injecting, by the system, the access credentials into the paywall associated with the one or more of the plurality of provider sites via the application based on the at least one associated permission.