System and method for electronic key provisioning and access management in connection with mobile devices
AssigneeElement Inc.
InventorsAdam Perold, Daniel Abrams
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Abstract
Novel systems and methods are disclosed for electronic key provisioning and access management in connection with mobile devices. The electronic keys can be time-denominated and event-denominated, thereby increasing the security and ease of use of access management for physical or virtual resources. The access management is granted in a protocol based on biometric features, contextual data, electronic keys, or a combination thereof.
Claims23
A computer-implemented system for electronic key provisioning, user authentication, and access management, the system comprising:
- (a) a digital processing device comprising a memory module and an operating system configured to perform executable instructions;
- (b) a computer program including instructions processed by the digital processing device to execute an application comprising:
- (i) a first software module configured to obtain one or more biometric features of an end user in a contact-free process, wherein the one or more biometric features are derived from one or more of the following biometric modalities:
- a fingerprint, a palm print, an iris, a retina, a face, a human cardiac rhythm, and a human voice;
- (ii) a second software module configured to authenticate the end user based on the biometric features and create or receive an electronic key in response to the authentication, wherein the electronic key is revocable based on a time-denomination, a geo-location-denomination, and an event-denomination, wherein the time denomination comprises one or more time windows, and wherein the geo-location-denomination comprises a proximity of the geo-location of an end user to a location of a physical or virtual resource;
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- (iii) a third software module configured to grant an access to the physical or virtual resource based on the one or more biometric features and the electronic key, wherein the granting the access is based on the event or the one or more time windows, and the proximity of the geo-location of the end user to the location of the physical or virtual resource.
Non-transitory computer-readable storage media encoded with a computer program including instructions executable by a digital signal processor to create an application for electronic key provisioning, authentication, and access management, the application comprising:
- (a) a first software module configured to obtain one or more biometric features of an end user in a contact-free process, wherein the one or more biometric features are derived from one or more of the following biometric modalities:
- a fingerprint, a palm print, an iris, a retina, a face, a human cardiac rhythm, and a human voice;
- (b) a second software module configured to authenticate the end user based on the biometric features and create or receive an electronic key in response to the authentication, wherein the electronic key is revocable based on a time-denomination, a geo-location-denomination, and an event-denomination, wherein the time denomination comprises one or more time windows, and wherein the geo-location-denomination comprises a proximity of the geo-location of an end user to a location of a physical or virtual resource;
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- (c) a third software module configured to grant an access to the physical or virtual resource based on the one or more biometric features and the electronic key, wherein the granting the access is based on the event or the one or more time windows, and the proximity of the geo-location of the end user to the location of the physical or virtual resource.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.