US 12,341,903 B2
Filling digital documents using multi-tiered user identity models based on decentralized identity
Songlin He, Hangzhou (CN); Tong Sun, San Jose, CA (US); Nedim Lipka, Santa Clara, CA (US); Curtis Wigington, San Jose, CA (US); Rajiv Jain, Vienna, VA (US); and Anindo Roy, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/819,540.
Prior Publication US 2024/0056309 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 9/00 (2022.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 40/174 (2020.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 9/3247 (2013.01) [G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 40/174 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
maintaining, within storage, a multi-tier user identity model for a client device, the multi-tier user identity model comprising a layer for verifiable credentials of the client device and an additional layer for unverified user attributes of the client device;
submitting, to an issuer of verifiable credentials, a request for a verifiable credential that includes a user attribute associated with the additional layer of the multi-tier user identity model of the client device;
associating, in response to receiving the verifiable credential including the user attribute from the issuer, the user attribute with the layer for verifiable credentials of the multi-tier user identity model of the client device;
receiving, by at least one processing device, a digital document comprising one or more digital fillable fields for the client device;
retrieving, for the client device and in response to receiving the digital document, one or more verifiable credentials from the layer for verifiable credentials of the multi-tier user identity model of the client device; and
modifying, by the at least one processing device, the digital document by filling in the one or more digital fillable fields using one or more user attributes of the one or more verifiable credentials.