Transaction terminal biometric integration
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsSomnath Banerjee, Robert Thomas Borucki
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Abstract
A transaction terminal includes a plurality of disparate application services that process within a common/shared platform on the transaction terminal. Each disparate application service may include its own unique biometric provider for providing biometric registration and recognition services to customers at the transaction terminal. When a particular application service is launched for execution on the transaction terminal, a biometric integration manager identifies an appropriate biometric provider for that application service and interacts with that biometric provider and the launched application service to facilitate biometric registration or biometric recognition of a customer transacting at the transaction terminal.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving a biometric operation from an application processing on a transaction terminal with a plurality of other applications within a shared platform on the transaction terminal;
- passing control to a biometric provider associated with the application in response to the receiving;
- and
- providing a result, produced by the biometric provider after the biometric provider has processed the biometric operation, to the application.
A method, comprising:
- passing processing control of a shared platform to a biometric application from an application based on a selection made by a user for a biometric operation when interacting with the application that is processing within the shared platform on a transaction terminal;
- waiting on the biometric application to complete processing of the biometric operation within the shared platform;
- and
- returning the processing control within the shared platform back to the application with a portion of a result that was produced as output by the biometric application after processing the biometric operation.
A transaction terminal, comprising:
- a hardware processor configured to execute executable instructions from a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as a biometric integrator;
- at least one biometric peripheral interfaced to the transaction terminal;
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- the biometric integration integrator configured to:
- i) execute on the hardware processor, ii) process within a shared platform on the transaction terminal with a plurality of applications and a plurality of biometric applications, iii) selective pass processing control to and from the applications to the biometric applications, iv) provide Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the applications and biometric applications to interact with the at least one biometric peripheral of the transaction terminal when the applications and biometric applications have the processing control, and v) provide portions of output produced by the biometric applications when transferring processing control from the biometric applications to the applications to facilitate one of:
- registering users for biometric recognition with the applications and biometrically recognizing/authenticating the users for accessing accounts of the users held by entities associated with the applications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.