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Personal digital key initialization and registration for secure transactions

AssigneeProxense, LLC

InventorsJohn J. Giobbi, David L. Brown, Fred S. Hirt

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Abstract

A system and method provide efficient, secure, and highly reliable authentication for transaction processing and/or access control applications. A personal digital key (PDK) is programmed using a trusted programming device to initialize and/or register the PDK for use. In one embodiment, the initialization and registration processes are administered by a specialized trusted Notary to ensure the processes follow defined security procedures. In a biometric initialization, the programming device acquires a biometric input from a user and writes the biometric data to a tamperproof memory in the PDK. In registration, the Programmer communicates to one or more remote registries to create or update entries associated with the user PDK. Once initialized and registered, the PDK can be used for various levels of secure authentication processes.

Claims23

Dependent claims

A method of using a programming device to initialize a personal digital key (PDK) for use in secure authentication, comprising:

reading, with the programming device, user information from a user PDK associated with a user, the user PDK separate from the programming device;
determining, with the programming device, a status of the user PDK based at least in part on a registry including data describing the status of the user PDK;
responsive to determining that the status of the user PDK is in good standing, determining, with the programming device, that the user is authorized for initialization;
reading, with the programming device, notary information from a notary PDK;
determining, with the programming device, that the notary PDK is authorized to witness the initialization;
acquiring, with the programming device, a biometric input from the user;
receiving, with the programming device, data from the notary PDK indicating that the notary PDK witnesses acquisition of the biometric input from the user by the programming device;
responsive to the user and notary PDK being authorized, generating, with the programming device, a biometric profile that includes the biometric input;
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storing the biometric profile on the user's PDK.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/744,832Filed 5 May 2007 · us provisional application
Priority: 5 May 2006
Published: US 2007/0260888 A18 Nov 2007
Granted: 2 Apr 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification26 codes

G06Q 20/409
Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check…:…
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication
G06F 21/32
User authentication: using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
G06Q 20/327
Using wireless devices: short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices

Family

Application60/798,172Us provisional application · filed 5 May 2006
Application60/798,843Us provisional application · filed 8 May 2006
Application60/838,788Us provisional application · filed 17 Aug 2006
Application60/824,758Us provisional application · filed 6 Sep 2006
Application60/894,608Us provisional application · filed 13 Mar 2007
US 2007/0260888 A1Pre-grant publication · published 8 Nov 2007
US 8,412,949 B2This patent

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