User-wearable secured devices provided assuring authentication and validation of data storage and transmission

• US 10,154,031 B1
• Filed: 06/11/2018
• Issued: 12/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ironclad Encryption Corp.
• Original Assignee: Ironclad Encryption Corp.
• Inventors: Lerner, Daniel Maurice
• Primary Examiner(s): Holder, Bradley
• Application Number:
  US16/005,281
• Time in Patent Office: 183 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/80 Wireless
• 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: H04L 9/002 Countermeasures against attacks on cryptographic mechanisms network architectures or network communication protocols for protection against malicious traffic H04L63/1441
• 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 9/088 Usage controlling of secret information, e.g. techniques for restricting cryptographic keys to pre-authorized uses, different access levels, validity of crypto-period, different key- or password length, or different strong and weak cryptographic algorithms network architectures or network communication protocols for using time-dependent keys in a packet data network H04L63/068
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/14 using a plurality of keys or algorithms
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3271 using challenge-response
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/03 Protecting confidentiality, e.g. by encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/33 using wearable devices, e.g. using a smartwatch or smart-glasses
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/77 Graphical identity

Abstract

Described are user-wearable devices utilizing encryption authentication techniques to ensure security of any data transmission to and from these devices. In order to provide privacy and security of user-wearable device signals, unique encryption technology is employed together with the use of biometrics associated with each user. The user-wearable devices may be electronic and can include one or more circuits, power sources, displays, and transceivers with biometric data transceiver portions. The devices can establish communications with a counterpart communication device or system in order to provide the ability to perform specific secured transactions. The biometric data transceivers are capable of reading a user'"'"'s encrypted biometric data and then transmitting the encrypted data to a user identity validation distributed auto-synchronous array (DASA) database which allows for decryption, identification, and authentication of both the user(s) and the transaction(s).

Claims

1. One or more user-wearable transaction secured devices that transmit to and receive data from one or more said user-wearable transaction secured devices to another, comprising:

a housing;

a computer driven communication processor containing a microprocessor and data storage encryption capacity fixedly mounted in said housing;

one or more circuits fixedly mounted in said housing and communicatively coupled with said computer driven communication processor;

a power source coupled with said circuits;

at least one transceiver including a biometric data transceiver portion coupled with said housing and coupled with said circuits and with said computer driven communication processor where one or more sensors are held within or on one or more surfaces of said user-wearable transaction secured devices;

wherein said user-wearable transaction secured devices transmit and receive encrypted signals from one or more said user-wearable transaction secured devices to another that form specific transmissions determined by one or more users, to said transceiver and said biometric data transceiver portion of said transceiver;

wherein said transceiver and said biometric data transceiver portion of said transceiver determines, via authentication and validation, identification of said users and confirms if said users are wearing said user-wearable transaction secured devices via utilization of said computer driven communication processor;

wherein said computer driven communication processor provides, processes, and analyzes bio-identification, continuous bio-confirmation, and authentication of said users, wherein said authentication includes either high security or low security authentication requests;

wherein transmissions sent or received by said at least one transceiver and said biometric data transceiver portion of said transceiver provide internal and external user identity validation for said user-wearable transaction secured devices that validate authentication via utilization of at least one distributed auto-synchronous array (DASA) database which provides a portion of data and a set of data rules necessary to validate transmissions transmitted and received between said user-wearable transaction secured devices for a specific, designated set of users of said user-wearable transaction secured devices.

2. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said circuits are connected to sensors or said circuits themselves function as sensors.

3. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said circuits are selected from the group consisting of;

electronic, optical, and radiation emitting or receiving or both radiation emitting and receiving energized circuits that transmit and receive signals.

4. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein one or more display portions are communicatively coupled with said circuits.

5. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 4, wherein said display portions display timepiece data or transaction data or both timepiece data and transaction data.

6. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said housing is in a shape of a wristwatch, wherein said wristwatch incorporates features that provide functions for one or more devices selected from the group consisting of;

a camera, a smartphone, a calculator, a global positioning system (GPS), a radio, a television, a door opener, a remote energy switching device, and a transceiver, wherein said transceiver is capable of acting as an (Internet Protocol) IP protocol data unit.

7. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said housing is in a shape selected from the group consisting of;

necklaces, broaches, rings, earrings, badges, belts, buckles, assorted jewelry, and articles of clothing.

8. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said encrypted signals carry data that is transmitted and received by said at least one transceiver and wherein said at least one transceiver analyzes and acts upon instructions contained within said data.

9. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said sensors are biometric sensors that provide biometric data that comprises information used to confirm or deny access to said user-wearable transaction secured devices.

10. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said bio-identification initiates a process that requires user action to bio-identify users of said user-wearable transaction secured devices followed by initial bio-confirmation and then authentication of said users to enable one or more transactions.

11. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 10, wherein said bio-identification is continuously confirmed by authentication requests where if bio-confirmation is not confirmed, a de-authenticate procedure is initiated that requires bio-identification confirmation to be re-initiated.

12. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 11, wherein said authentication requests are high security requests that require users actively re-bio-identify themselves in order for said authentication requests to proceed and where a test for bio-confirmation is maintained that results in a confirmation that allows for completion of authentication.

13. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 11, wherein said authentication requests are low security requests that do not require re-bio-identification, and where a test for bio-confirmation is maintained that results in a confirmation that allows for completion of authentication.

14. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 11, wherein said authentication requests can be communicated to said user-wearable transaction secured devices from external sources or said authentication requests can be user initiated originating from said user-wearable transaction secured devices.

15. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said users are notified when encryption is initiated, in process, or completed.

16. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 15, wherein said encryption is provided for transmissions during transmission of a credential identifier to control a server.

17. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said biometric data transceiver portion of said transceiver is configured to read information from one or more of a group consisting of:

a user'"'"'s fingerprints, voice patterns, a body'"'"'s electrical, chemical, physical, and biological characteristics, biotags, facial characteristics, skin pH, thermal characteristics, ocular characteristics, kinesthetics, and genetic make-up and wherein said users can include any member of a genus of an animal or plant kingdom.

18. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein transmissions sent or received by said transceiver and said biometric data transceiver portion of said transceiver provide internal and external user identity validation for said user-wearable transaction secured devices that validate authentication via utilization of said (DASA) database, wherein said (DASA) database contains and provides at least one authentication and encryption application.

19. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 18, wherein said transmissions access and transmit a portion of data contained within said (DASA) database to said user-wearable transaction secured devices, validates data transmitted from said user-wearable transaction secured devices with a portion of data within said (DASA) database, and further establishes validity of data according to a set of computational operations that provides a set of rules residing in said (DASA) database and that also can contain a portion or all of said data, where all transmissions incoming to, held within, and outgoing from said sensors or any transceivers of said user-wearable transaction secured devices, function securely and singularly for a specific, designated set of users;

wherein said (DASA) database also provides one or more transmittable codes, wherein said transmittable codes originate within at least one authentication and at least one validation application and wherein said user-wearable transaction secured devices communicate internal and external by transmission and reception of data signals where internal transmission and reception is within said user-wearable transaction secured devices and external transmission and reception is external to said user-wearable transaction secured devices.

20. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 19, wherein said transmittable codes are securitized in that said transmittable codes are not readily accessible from an external source or within said user-wearable transaction secured devices without passing through a security check to ensure that proper access occurs, wherein proper access is access that is provided for only validated data transmissions from validated sources that also validates individuals or groups of individuals and wherein said transmittable codes are encrypted.

21. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 19, wherein said transmittable codes utilize either individually or collectively authentication, validation, and encryption applications that either individually or collectively authenticate, validate, and encrypt signals between detecting said user-wearable transaction secured devices capable of searching, retrieving, analyzing, and validating said transmittable codes.

22. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 19, wherein said transmittable codes are selected from one or more of a group consisting of:

a QR code, a bar code, a digital code, a temporal code, a binary code, an analogue code, and a 7-bit binary code.

23. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 18, wherein data within said (DASA) database is accessed, manipulated, and arranged by said computer driven communication processor residing within said user-wearable transaction secured devices.

24. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 18, wherein said at least one authentication and encryption application is secured in a secured (DASA) database within a secured cloud or other secured storage device utilizing at least one encryption application.

25. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 18, wherein at least one authentication and encryption application employs a process as follows:

a user of one or more said user-wearable transaction secured devices invokes secured transmission as attempts to acquire a key using one or more tolerance techniques that provide for a number of attempts to retrieve keys from a configuration table, wherein at least one authentication and encryption application possesses a get next key computational operation that is invoked locally on or in proximity to said user-wearable transaction secured devices.

26. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 25, wherein at least one authentication and encryption application provides more layers of security in that now at least two authentication and encryption applications as well as encryption keys are required for said user-wearable transaction secured devices so that a proper match is determined and establishes whether a user of said user-wearable transaction secured devices is allowed access privileges.

27. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 26, wherein if access is denied, said user'"'"'s user-wearable transaction secured device provides via oral, visual, text, or data signal transmission on a display a denial of a match.

28. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 26, wherein lack of matching causes at least one authentication and encryption application that resides with said user'"'"'s user-wearable transaction secured device to be removed and wherein to further ensure that master keys in said configuration table are protected and secured, a new master table key is generated either via a signal from said user-wearable transaction secured devices to one or more secured (DASA) database or via a signal from a key management system.

29. The user-wearable transaction secured devices of claim 1, wherein said communication processor invokes use of at least one of the group of interfaces consisting of a serial interface, a transmission control protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) (TCP/IP) interface, an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 interface, an IEEE 802.15.4 interface, and a secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) interface.

30. A system that employs one or more user-wearable transaction secured devices for transmitting to and receiving data from said one or more user-wearable transaction secured devices to another, comprising:

said one or more user-wearable transaction secured devices that transmit to and receive data from one or more said user-wearable transaction secured devices to another, further comprising;

a housing;

a computer driven communication processor containing a microprocessor and data storage encryption capacity fixedly mounted in said housing;

one or more circuits fixedly mounted in said housing and communicatively coupled with said computer driven communication processor;

a power source coupled with said circuits;

at least one transceiver including a biometric data transceiver portion coupled with said housing and coupled with said circuits and with said computer driven communication processor where one or more sensors are held within or on one or more surfaces of said user-wearable transaction secured devices;

wherein said user-wearable transaction secured devices transmit and receive encrypted signals from one or more said user-wearable transaction secured devices to another that form specific transmissions determined by one or more users, to said transceiver and said biometric data transceiver portion of said transceiver;

wherein said transceiver and said biometric data transceiver portion of said transceiver determines, via authentication and validation, identification of said users and confirms if said users are wearing said user-wearable transaction secured devices via utilization of said computer driven communication processor;

wherein said computer driven communication processor provides, processes, and analyzes bio-identification, continuous bio-confirmation, and authentication of said users, wherein said authentication includes either high security or low security authentication requests;

wherein transmissions sent or received by at least one transceiver and said biometric data transceiver portion of said transceiver provide internal and external user identity validation for said user-wearable transaction secured devices that validate authentication via utilization of at least one distributed auto-synchronous array (DASA) database which provides a portion of data and a set of data rules necessary to validate transmissions transmitted and received between said user-wearable transaction secured devices for a specific, designated set of users of said user-wearable transaction secured devices.