Binding a digital file to a person's identity using biometrics
OwnerMartin Tomlinson, Cen Jung Tjhai +1inventors
InventorsMartin Tomlinson, Cen Jung Tjhai, Andersen Cheng
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Abstract
A method and system are described for authenticating one or more digital files in which a feature, characteristic or a portion of the contents of said files is implanted into one or more biometric information files, which are electronically recorded and transmitted and in which the identity of the originator or a trusted third party and all or part of the feature, characteristic or a portion of the contents of said files is determined from said biometric information files.
Claims15
A method of authenticating a digital data file associated with an originator of the digital data file, the method comprising:
- deriving information from at least a portion of the digital data file using a predefined function;
- generating authentication data providing an irrevocable binding of the digital data file to at least one biometric characteristic of the associated originator, by:
- prompting the originator to record biometric input of the derived information;
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- capturing audio and/or image data of the biometric input of the derived information by the originator in response to the prompting, wherein the derived information is implanted into the captured audio and/or image data;
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- transmitting, over a data network, the digital data file and the associated generated authentication data to a recipient,
- whereby the implanted information and the at least one biometric characteristic of the associated originator are verified from an output of the generated authentication data,
- wherein the derived information comprises encoded data derived from the digital data file using a codebook look up table, where a symbol or sequence of symbols is used to describe said content.
A system for authenticating a digital data file associated with an originator of the digital data file, the system comprising at least one hardware processor which executes:
- a deriving unit configured to derive information from at least a portion of the digital data file using a predefined function;
- a generating unit configured to generate authentication data providing an irrevocable binding of the digital data file to at least one biometric characteristic of the associated originator, by:
- prompting the originator to record biometric input of the derived information;
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- capturing audio and/or image data of the biometric input of the derived information by the originator in response to the prompting, wherein the derived information is implanted into the captured audio and/or image data;
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- a transmitting unit configured to transmit, over a data network, the digital data file and the associated generated authentication data to a recipient, whereby the implanted information and the at least one biometric characteristic of the associated originator are verified from an output of the generated authentication data,
- wherein the derived information comprises encoded data derived from the digital data file using a codebook look up table, where a symbol or sequence of symbols is used to describe said content.
A non-transitive computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions to perform a method of:
- deriving information from at least a portion of a digital data file using a predefined function;
- generating authentication data providing an irrevocable binding of the digital data file to at least one biometric characteristic of an associated originator of the digital data file, by:
- prompting the originator to record biometric input of the derived information;
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- capturing audio and/or image data of the biometric input of the derived information by the originator in response to the prompting, wherein the derived information is implanted into the captured audio and/or image data;
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- transmitting, over a data network, the digital data file and the associated generated authentication data to a recipient, whereby the implanted information and the at least one biometric characteristic of the associated originator are verified from an output of the generated authentication data,
- wherein the derived information comprises encoded data derived from the digital data file using a codebook look up table, where a symbol or sequence of symbols is used to describe said content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.