INDICATE MEMBERSHIP GROUP

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
FIC	Financial Industries Corporation	PO Box 149138 Austin TX 78714	indicate membership in a group of insurance and financial companies;FINANCIAL INDUSTRIES CORPORATION;
FIC	Financial Industries Corporation	PO Box 149138 Austin TX 78714	indicate membership in a group of insurance and financial companies;FINANCIAL INDUSTRIES CORPORATION;
HOLMES SCHOLARS	AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION	Suite 300 1307 New York Avenue, NW Washington DC 20005	indicate membership in a group of past and present recipients of graduate scholarships at institutes of higher education;SCHOLARS;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

In accordance with the invention, a presenter of credentials presents to a recipient of credentials one or more chains of group credentials to prove entity membership or non-membership in a nested group in a computer network. The ability to present a chain of credentials is particularly important when a client is attempting the prove membership or non-membership in a nested group and one or more of the group servers in the family tree are off-line. A chain of group credentials includes two or more proofs of group membership and/or proofs of group non-membership Furthermore, the proofs of group membership may include one or more group membership certificates and/or one or more group membership lists; and proofs of group non-membership may include one or more group non-membership certificates and/or one or more group membership lists.