Content authentication and validation via multi-factor digital tokens, systems, and methods

Inventors

Witchey, Luna • Sanborn, John Zachary • Soon-Shiong, Patrick • Witchey, Nicholas James

Assignees

Nant Holdings IP LLC • Immunitybio Inc

Abstract

Authentication tokens, systems, and methods are described. An illustrative method is disclosed to include receiving an electronic file including a digital image, receiving biometric information that is associated with a person, modifying the electronic file with the biometric information such that one or more pixels in the digital image are replaced with the biometric information, and storing the modified electronic file as a digital authentication token to be used in connection with authorized publications of original digital work.

Core Innovation

The invention relates to mitigating risk of digitally distributed fake news by creating a digital authentication token associated with an original digital work tied to an original news story. The method stores the original digital work in non-transitory computer readable memory and generates the digital authentication token by executing at least one deterministic function on at least a portion of the original digital work and on digital identifying information associated with a publisher of the original news story and the original digital work.

The digital authentication token comprises an embedded link that points to the publisher of the original news story, and the token is published together with the original digital work as a token/work pair. Validation processing generates a validation score representing a validation of a suspect news story using deterministic features derived from the digital authentication token and from at least a portion of the suspect news story.

The deterministic comparisons used for validation include at least one of a pixel-to-pixel comparison, a descriptor comparison, and an optical character recognition comparison. The deterministic features comprise a combination of outputs from at least two of the pixel-to-pixel comparison, the descriptor comparison, and the optical character recognition comparison.

Claims Coverage

The document provides three independent claims, all focused on generating a digital authentication token from an original digital work and publisher identifying information using deterministic functions, publishing a token/work pair with an embedded link, and enabling validation processing that outputs a validation score using deterministic features derived from pixel-to-pixel, descriptor, and optical character recognition comparisons.

Across the independent claims, the core inventive coverage is the combination of generating a digital authentication token using deterministic functions on an original digital work and publisher identifying information, publishing the token together with the original work as a token/work pair that includes an embedded link to the publisher, and producing a validation score for a suspect news story using deterministic features derived from combined outputs of pixel-to-pixel, descriptor, and optical character recognition comparisons.

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