Selecting data items using biometric features

• US 10,140,502 B1
• Filed: 02/13/2018
• Issued: 11/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: A.R Head Ventures Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Conduit Limited (KGB)
• Inventors: Shilo, Ronen
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Nam V
• Application Number:
  US15/895,398
• Time in Patent Office: 287 Days
• Field of Search: 340 583, 3404072, 455410, 4555751, 345173, 715810, 715702, 235379
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1365 Matching; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0866 involving user or device identifiers, e.g. serial number, physical or biometrical information, DNA, hand-signature or measurable physical characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3231 Biological data, e.g. fingerprint, voice or retina network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using biometrical features in a packet data network H04L63/0861

Abstract

A biometric feature of a user is obtained. Based on the biometric feature, a data item is selected from a plurality of data items, wherein each item in the plurality of data items is associated with a different biometric feature. The data item is used, such as in a program as part of an operation that depends on the current context of the program. Additionally or alternatively, an apparatus comprises a peripheral device for obtaining a biometric feature of a user; a memory retaining a plurality of data items, wherein each item in the plurality of data items is associated with a different biometric feature; a processor configured to select a data item from the plurality of data items, wherein the selection is based on the biometric feature; and wherein said processor is further configured to utilize the data item.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium retaining program instructions, which program instructions when read by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method, wherein the processor is capable of executing different programs, wherein the method comprising:

obtaining a biometric feature of a user;

selecting a data item from a plurality of data items, wherein each item in the plurality of data items is associated with a different biometric feature, wherein said selecting the data item is based on the biometric feature of the user; and

using the data item in a program as part of an operation, wherein the program is executed by the processor, wherein the operation depends on a current context of the program, whereby different results are achieved for a same data item in different contexts of the program.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the plurality of data items are encrypted, wherein each item in the plurality of data items is encrypted using the different biometric feature of the user, wherein the method further comprises decrypting the data item using the biometric feature.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the current context of the program having a location in a display, wherein the location in the display is determined using a user input preceding a user input utilized in said obtaining the biometric feature of the user, whereby said using the data item is performed so as to modify the display at the location in the display.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the current context of the program is a context of filling a form in the program, wherein in the context of filling the form, comprises displaying to the user a form to be filled by the user, wherein the form to be filled comprises a plurality of input fields, wherein said using comprises utilizing the data item to fill one or more of the plurality of input fields in the form, whereby the form is filled, at least in part, automatically instead of manually, whereby using different biometric features of the user, different data is filled in to the form.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the current context is a context of pasting data, wherein a location where data is pasted to is determined based on a user action preceding a user action used in said obtaining the biometric feature, wherein said using comprises pasting the data item to the location, whereby using different biometric features of the user, different data is pasted.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the plurality of data items are associated with the current context of the program, whereby using the same biometric feature of the user yields different data items in different contexts.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein biometric feature is a feature extracted from a fingerprint of the user.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said obtaining is performed using an input device capable of obtaining the biometric feature from a fingerprint of the user.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein said using comprises using the data item in a location in a display, wherein the location in the display is determined without using the input device capable of obtaining the biometric feature that is in said obtaining the biometric feature of the user.

10. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the plurality of data items comprises:

alternative credit card or debit card information of the user, wherein each alternative card information is selected based on the user providing a different body part from which the biometric feature is extracted.

11. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the plurality of data items comprises:

alternative login information of the user, wherein each login information is selected based on the user providing a different body part from which the biometric feature is extracted.

12. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the plurality of data items comprises:

alternative signatures of the user, wherein each signature is selected based on the user providing a different body part from which the biometric feature is extracted, wherein the current context of the program is a context of composing a communication, wherein the communication ends with a human-readable signature of a composing user of the communication.

13. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said obtaining the biometric feature comprises obtaining the biometric feature from an input device that is configured to indirectly interact with a graphical user interface of the program.

14. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein said obtaining, selecting and using are performed on a first device, wherein the first device comprising the peripheral device for obtaining the biometric feature of the user, wherein the data item is set to be associated with the biometric feature of the user on a second device that is operated by the user.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein the data item is set to be associated with the biometric feature of the user by the user.

16. A method comprising:

obtaining user input causing a program in a mobile device to change context from a first context into a second context, wherein in the second context, information is to be inputted by a user;

in response to the user providing a fingerprint sample, comparing the fingerprint sample against a set of pre-existing fingerprint samples of the user, wherein each pre-existing fingerprint sample corresponds a data item;

in response to matching the fingerprint sample with a pre-existing fingerprint sample, retrieving a data item corresponding the pre-existing fingerprint sample; and

inputting the data item in the second context of the program, wherein said inputting is affected by the second context, whereby different results are achieved for a same data item in different contexts.

17. The method of claim 16,

wherein each pre-existing fingerprint sample corresponds an encrypted data item, wherein the encrypted data item is encrypted using the corresponding pre-existing fingerprint sample of the user;

wherein the method further comprises decrypting the data item using the fingerprint sample, whereby obtaining a decrypted data;

wherein said inputting the data item comprises inputting the decrypted data.

18. A computerized apparatus comprising:

a peripheral device for obtaining a biometric feature of a user;

a memory retaining a plurality of data items, wherein each item in the plurality of data items is associated with a different biometric feature;

a processor configured to select a data item from the plurality of data items, wherein the selection is based on the biometric feature; and

wherein said processor is further configured to utilize the data item based on a current context of the computerized apparatus, whereby different results are achieved for a same data item in different contexts of the computerized apparatus.

19. The computerized apparatus of claim 18, wherein the plurality of data items are encrypted, wherein each item in the plurality of data items is encrypted using the different biometric feature of the user, wherein said processor is further configured to decrypt the data item using the biometric feature.

20. The computerized apparatus of claim 18, wherein the plurality of data items are associated with a current context of the computerized apparatus, whereby using the same biometric feature of the user yields different data items in different contexts.

21. The computerized apparatus of claim 18, wherein the plurality of data items comprises at least one of:

alternative credit card or debit card information of the user, wherein each alternative card information is selected based on the user providing a different body part from which the biometric feature is extracted;

alternative login information of the user, wherein each login information is selected based on the user providing a different body part from which the biometric feature is extracted; and

alternative signatures of the user to be provided in a human-readable form as part of a communication composed by the user, wherein each signature is selected based on the user providing a different body part from which the biometric feature is extracted.

22. The computerized apparatus of claim 18, wherein the plurality of data items are set to be associated with different biometric features by the user using a second device, wherein the second device comprises a second peripheral device for obtaining a biometric feature of a user using the second device, whereby data is shared between the second device and the computerized apparatus based on a user action in the second device, and whereby the user is capable of utilizing shared data in the computerized apparatus.

23. The computerized apparatus of claim 22, wherein the computerized apparatus is a mobile device and the second device is a second mobile device.

24. The computerized apparatus of claim 22, wherein the computerized apparatus is a device mounted on or installed in a vehicle, wherein the second device is a mobile device of the user.