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System for electroencephalogram patterning recognition for authentication

AssigneeBank of America Corporation

InventorsJoseph Benjamin Castinado, Charles Russell Kendall

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Abstract

Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for electroencephalogram patterning recognition for user authentication into one or more physical or digital locations. In this way, the system may generate a spectral analysis baseline electroencephalogram reading for a user that can be segmented and analyzed based on a specific time span associated with a known stimulus or event, and diagnostic applications generally focus on either event-related potentials or the like. Upon initiating a request to enter a location requiring authentication, an electroencephalogram reading may be generated and patterned after the baseline electroencephalogram reading for the user. The system may perform patterned recognition of the readings and provide an authentication confidence of the user for authentication into the location.

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Dependent claims

A system for electroencephalogram (EEG) patterning recognition for authentication, the system comprising:

a memory device with computer-readable program code stored thereon;
a communication device;
a printing device for printing the resource distribution documents;
a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device and the communication device, wherein the processing device is configured to execute the computer-readable program code to:
identify a transmission from an EEG reader for establishing a baseline EEG reading for the user;
store the baseline EEG reading for the user in a EEG profile for the user, wherein the EEG profile comprises the baseline EEG reading for the user and authentication codes for one or more authentication locations;
identify the user requesting authentication into the one or more authentication locations;
locate an EEG reader at the one or more authentication locations and form a communicable linkage with the EEG reader at the one or more authentication locations;
receive an EEG reading from the EEG reader at the one or more authentication locations;
perform comparative spectral analysis to the EEG reading to identify a match or partial match to the baseline EEG reading for the user;
and allow access into the one or more authentication locations based on a confidence of the comparative spectral analysis,
wherein allowing access into the one or more authentication locations based on a confidence of the comparative spectral analysis further comprises allowing access to functions of a portion of the authentication locations based on the confidence of a match of the EEG reading to the baseline EEG reading for the user to a hard authentication and an incomplete match of the EEG reading to the baseline EEG reading for the user to a soft authentication.

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A computer program product for electroencephalogram (EEG) patterning recognition for authentication with at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable program code portions embodied therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

an executable portion configured for integrating system application into receiving institution servers;
an executable portion configured for identifying a transmission from an EEG reader for establishing a baseline EEG reading for the user;
an executable portion configured for storing the baseline EEG reading for the user in a EEG profile for the user, wherein the EEG profile comprises the baseline EEG reading for the user and authentication codes for one or more authentication locations;
an executable portion configured for identifying the user requesting authentication into the one or more authentication locations;
an executable portion configured for locating an EEG reader at the one or more authentication locations and form a communicable linkage with the EEG reader at the one or more authentication locations;
an executable portion configured for receiving an EEG reading from the EEG reader at the one or more authentication locations;
an executable portion configured for performing comparative spectral analysis to the EEG reading to identify a match or partial match to the baseline EEG reading for the user;
and
an executable portion configured for allowing access into the one or more authentication locations based on a confidence of the comparative spectral analysis,
wherein allowing access into the one or more authentication locations based on a confidence of the comparative spectral analysis further comprises allowing access to functions of a portion of the authentication locations based on the confidence of a match of the EEG reading to the baseline EEG reading for the user to a hard authentication and an incomplete match of the EEG reading to the baseline EEG reading for the user to a soft authentication.

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A computer-implemented method for electroencephalogram (EEG) patterning recognition for authentication, the method comprising:

providing a computing system comprising a computer processing device and a non-transitory computer readable medium, where the computer readable medium comprises configured computer program instruction code, such that when said instruction code is operated by said computer processing device, said computer processing device performs the following operations:
identifying a transmission from an EEG reader for establishing a baseline EEG reading for the user;
storing the baseline EEG reading for the user in a EEG profile for the user, wherein the EEG profile comprises the baseline EEG reading for the user and authentication codes for one or more authentication locations;
identifying the user requesting authentication into the one or more authentication locations;
locating an EEG reader at the one or more authentication locations and form a communicable linkage with the EEG reader at the one or more authentication locations;
receiving an EEG reading from the EEG reader at the one or more authentication locations;
performing comparative spectral analysis to the EEG reading to identify a match or partial match to the baseline EEG reading for the user;
and
allowing access into the one or more authentication locations based on a confidence of the comparative spectral analysis,
wherein allowing access into the one or more authentication locations based on a confidence of the comparative spectral analysis further comprises allowing access to functions of a portion of the authentication locations based on the confidence of a match of the EEG reading to the baseline EEG reading for the user to a hard authentication and an incomplete match of the EEG reading to the baseline EEG reading for the user to a soft authentication.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/802,024Filed 2 Nov 2017
Published: US 2019/0132733 A12 May 2019
Granted: 18 Feb 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04W 12/06
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: authentication
G16H 10/60
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic…
G16H 30/40
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical images: for processing medical images, e.g. editing
H04W 12/66
Context-dependent security: trust-dependent, e.g. using trust scores or trust relationships