Authentication via camera
AssigneeSnap Inc.
InventorsAaron Daniel Son, Matthew Koontz
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Abstract
Systems and methods for authentication via camera are provided. In example embodiments, an authentication server transmits, to a mobile device, an identity verification image. The authentication server receives, from a computing device, a scanned image, wherein the computing device is different from the mobile device. The authentication server determines whether the scanned image includes data from the identity verification image. The authentication server transits, to a web server accessed by the computing device, an indication that a user's identity has been verified upon determining that the scanned image includes the data from the identity verification image.
Claims20
A system for user authentication using images, comprising:
- hardware processing circuitry;
- and
- a hardware memory storing instructions that, when executed, configure the hardware processing circuitry to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a server, a request from a second device to access a secured resource associated with a first device;
- in response to receiving the request, receiving, at the server, from the second device, information associated with an image of an authentication object displayed on a screen of the first device, the image of the authentication object that is displayed on the screen of the first device visually encoding a user identity of the user of the first device;
- determining, at the server, that the information corresponds to the user of the first device by comparing the information associated with the image received from the second device to a plurality of images generated within a specified time period;
- and
- in response to determining that the information corresponds to the user of the first device, enabling the second device to access the secured resource.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at a server, a request from a second device to access a secured resource associated with a first device;
- in response to receiving the request, receiving, at the server, from the second device, information associated with an image of an authentication object displayed on a screen of the first device, the image of the authentication object that is displayed on the screen of the first device visually encoding a user identity of the user of the first device;
- determining, at the server, that the information corresponds to the user of the first device by comparing the information associated with the image received from the second device to a plurality of images generated within a specified time period;
- and
- in response to determining that the information corresponds to the user of the first device, enabling the second device to access the secured resource.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for user authentication using images, that when executed configure hardware processing circuitry to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a server, a request from a second device to access a secured resource associated with a first device;
- in response to receiving the request, receiving, at the server, from the second device, information associated with an image of an authentication object displayed on a screen of the first device, the image of the authentication object that is displayed on the screen of the first device visually encoding a user identity of the user of the first device;
- determining, at the server, that the information corresponds to the user of the first device by comparing the information associated with the image received from the second device to a plurality of images generated within a specified time period;
- and
- in response to determining that the information corresponds to the user of the first device, enabling the second device to access the secured resource.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.