Voice over IP based biometric authentication

• US 10,122,712 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2017
• Issued: 11/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2004
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Interactions, LLC
• Original Assignee: Interactions, LLC
• Inventors: Novack, Brian M., Madsen, Daniel Larry, Thompson, Timothy R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelin, Jean
• Application Number:
  US15/439,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20170163639A1
• Time in Patent Office: 622 Days
• Field of Search: 455410, 455411, 4554141, 4554121, 455413, 455418, 455419, 455420, 455445, 455450
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/41 using speaker recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/6045 Identity confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/38 Graded-service arrangements, i.e. some subscribers prevented from establishing certain connections queuing arrangements H04Q3/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0078 Security; Fraud detection; Fraud prevention
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security

Abstract

A request from a party is received by a receiver from a remote system. The request from the party is received when the party attempts to obtain a service using the remote system. A selective determination is made to request, over a network, authentication of the party by a remote biometric system. A request is sent to the remote system for the party to provide a biometric sample responsive to determining to request authentication of the party. The service is provided contingent upon authentication of the party by the remote biometric system.

Claims

1. A method for verifying an individual'"'"'s identity of an individual, the method comprising:

receiving, within a remote biometric system in a communications network, a biometric sample of a party attempting to obtain a service from a remote system via a remote communication device remote from the biometric system and the remote system, the service being provided contingent upon authentication of the party as the individual;

comparing, within the biometric system, the received biometric sample to biometric information obtained from a storage to authenticate the party as the individual; and

performing a confidence check to determine a probability that the party is the individual based on the party providing the requested biometric sample, wherein the party is authenticated if the probability meets or exceeds a threshold value for two or more biometric authentication characteristics;

wherein the authentication of the party as the individual is performed by the biometric system responsive to a selective request from the remote communications device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the biometric sample is a voice biometric sample.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the voice biometric sample is packetized by an apparatus according to a voice over internet protocol.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the biometric system includes the storage and wherein the storage comprises a speech characteristics database that stores pre-registered voice information in association with identification information that identifies the individual.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein authentication using the biometric system is provided as a subscription service.

6. A system, comprising:

a processor for executing instructions; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by the processor, the instructions comprising;

instructions for receiving, within a remote biometric system in a communications network, a biometric sample of a party attempting to obtain a service from a remote system via a remote communication device remote from the biometric system and the remote system, the service being provided contingent upon authentication of the party as an individual;

instructions for comparing, within the biometric system, the received biometric sample to biometric information obtained from a storage to authenticate the party as the individual; and

instructions for performing a confidence check to determine probability that the party is the individual based on the party providing the requested biometric sample, wherein the party is authenticated if the probability meets or exceeds a threshold value for two or more biometric authentication characteristics;

wherein the authentication of the party as the individual is performed by the biometric system responsive to a selective request from the remote communications device.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the biometric sample is a voice biometric sample.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the voice biometric sample is packetized by an apparatus according to a voice over internet protocol.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the biometric system includes the storage and wherein the storage comprises a speech characteristics database that stores pre-registered voice information in association with identification information that identifies the individual.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein authentication using the biometric system is provided as a subscription service.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving, within a remote biometric system in a communications network, a biometric sample of a party attempting to obtain a service from a remote system via a remote communication device remote from the biometric system and the remote system, the service being provided contingent upon authentication of the party as an individual;

comparing, within the biometric system, the received biometric sample to biometric information obtained from a storage to authenticate the party as the individual; and

performing a confidence check to determine a probability that the party is the individual based on the party providing the requested biometric sample, wherein the party is authenticated if the probability meets or exceeds a threshold value for two or more biometric authentication characteristics;

wherein the authentication of the party as the individual is performed by the biometric system responsive to a selective request from the remote communications device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the biometric sample is a voice biometric sample.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the voice biometric sample is packetized by an apparatus according to a voice over internet protocol.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the biometric system includes the storage and wherein the storage comprises a speech characteristics database that stores pre-registered voice information in association with identification information that identifies the individual.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein authentication using the biometric system is provided as a subscription service.