Centralized authentication system Ghent University
This invention studies the problem of the effective authentication of problematic users on community websites. We propose a solution that is based on the unique caller id of their cell phone. On top of that authentication system, we developed a community based reputation system. The whole concept has been implemented and will be made available under the name of YouValid. The core idea is that users can only create an account on a web 2.0 website through a dedicated authentication service, which also keeps track of the (bad) reputation of users. Hence, a community website can now decide to ...