US 12,437,093 B1
Secure multi-party ephemeral file transfer
Zachary Brian Tucker, Grand Junction, CO (US); and Casey Andrew Graff, Sandy, UT (US)
Assigned to ComplyAuto IP LLC, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed by ComplyAuto IP LLC, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed on Apr. 7, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/172,364.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/631,360, filed on Apr. 8, 2024.
Int. Cl. G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/6209 (2013.01) [G06F 21/31 (2013.01); G06F 21/604 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of secure file transfer of a file with limited access duration, the method comprising:
by a hardware processor of an interactive computing system,
receiving an indication that a requestor user interacted with an entity link associated with an entity;
outputting an authentication request to obtain authentication information from the requestor user;
receiving the authentication information from the requestor user; and
responsive to successfully authenticating the requestor user based at least in part on the authentication information, the method further comprises:
receiving sender user information of a sender user;
generating a link corresponding to a file repository;
generating a packet, wherein the packet corresponds to a location at the file repository where a file uploaded responsive to interaction with an upload link is stored;
generating a packet access token that comprises a packet identifier associated with the packet;
embedding the packet access token with the link to create the upload link, wherein the upload link is associated with the packet;
outputting the upload link to enable the sender user to access the packet to upload the file to the location at the file repository that corresponds to the packet;
determining that the file has been uploaded to the location at the file repository; and
responsive at least in part to determining that the file has been uploaded to the location at the file repository, alerting a recipient that the file has been uploaded, wherein the recipient is a different user than the requestor user.