US 12,463,832 B2
Renewing of digital identity documents
Michael Webster, Vantaa (FI); Martin David, Prague (CZ); Thomas Schalldach, Buštehrad (CZ); and Gérald Maunier, Sanary-sur-Mer (FR)
Assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS, Meudon (FR)
Appl. No. 17/912,899
Filed by THALES DIS FRANCE SAS, Meudon (FR)
PCT Filed Mar. 29, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/058091
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/198143, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20315105 (EP), filed on Apr. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171113 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 9/3268 (2013.01) [H04L 9/088 (2013.01); H04L 9/3247 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for facilitating a renewing of a digital identity document, the method comprising the following steps of:
receiving by a renewal system a request for renewing a digital identity document from a device of a user of said digital identity document or a device of a verifier needing to inspect said digital identity document, wherein the renewal system is an entity performing a renewing process independently of an issuing process by independently creating or renewing a validity-related data item which is suitable to be associated with the digital identity document at the user's side without re-issuing or regenerating the whole digital identity document at the issuer, wherein the renewal system is an entity separate from an issuer of the digital identity document;
generating by said renewal system a determination of whether said digital identity document can be renewed;
when the determination is positive, creating by said renewal system an up-to-date validity-related data item to be associated with said digital identity document and to be inspected by a verifier when a validity of said digital identity document must be assessed, wherein the up-to-date validity-related data item is a data item that is suitable to exist outside the digital identity document;
generating by said renewal system a hash of the validity-related data item;
sending by said renewal system said up-to-date validity-related data item directly to the device of the user of said digital identity document, wherein the validity-related data item is signed with the hash generated by the renewal system;
receiving, directly from the renewal system, by the device of the user of said digital identity document, said up-to-date validity-related data item from said renewal system; and
after validating by the device of the user of said digital identity document that the hash created by the renewal system corresponds with a certificate of the renewal system, replacing, by said device of the user, the validity-related data item previously associated with said digital identity document with said up-to-date validity-related data item at the user's side.