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• US 10,318,719 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2018
• Issued: 06/11/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kao, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirl, Joseph P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gundry, Stephen T
• Application Number:
  US16/021,085
• Publication Number:
  US 20180307820A1
• Time in Patent Office: 348 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/33 using certificates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/62 Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
• 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

Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a digital certificate responsive to an authentication of a user according to a dynamic biometric process, associating the digital certificate with a transaction record for the transaction, storing information associated with authentication conditions of the dynamic biometric process, receiving an access request associated with the transaction, and providing access to the transaction record, the information associated with the authentication conditions of the dynamic biometric process or a combination thereof responsive to the access request, where granting of the access is according to transmitting an access acknowledgement to equipment of the user, or obtaining another authentication to allow permission to access or a combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a server, a transaction record specifying a device and a transaction;

determining, by the server, that the device is associated with a biometric authentication;

identifying, by the server, a different device that is registered for the biometric authentication;

sending, by the server, a biometric authentication request to the different device that is registered for the biometric authentication, the biometric authentication request sent for authorizing the transaction specified by the transaction record;

receiving, by the server, a biometric from the different device in response to the biometric authentication request;

performing, by the server, the biometric authentication based on the biometric received from the different device; and

generating, by the server, a digital certificate responsive to the biometric authentication that authorizes the transaction specified by the transaction record.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a query specified by the biometric authentication.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a phrase specified by the biometric authentication.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a voice recording as the biometric.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a model associated with the biometric authentication.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising expiring the digital certificate according to a time.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising querying a database to identify the different device that is registered for the biometric authentication.

8. A system, comprising:

a hardware processor; and

a memory device, the memory device storing instructions, the instructions when executed causing the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising;

receiving a transaction record specifying a device conducting a transaction;

determining that the device is associated with a biometric authentication;

retrieving a network address registered for the biometric authentication;

sending a biometric authentication request to a different device that is associated with the network address registered for the biometric authentication, the biometric authentication request sent for authorizing the transaction specified by the transaction record;

receiving a biometric from the different device that is associated with the network address in response to the biometric authentication request;

performing the biometric authentication based on the biometric; and

generating a digital certificate in response to the biometric authentication authorizing the transaction specified by the transaction record.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a query specified by the biometric authentication.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a phrase specified by the biometric authentication.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a voice recording.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a model associated with the biometric authentication.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise expiring the digital certificate according to a time.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise querying a database to identify the network address registered for the biometric authentication.

15. A memory device storing instructions that when executed cause a hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a transaction record specifying a device conducting a transaction;

determining that a biometric authentication is associated with the device conducting the transaction;

retrieving a network address registered for the biometric authentication;

sending a biometric authentication request to a different device that is associated with the network address registered for the biometric authentication, the biometric authentication request sent for authorizing the transaction specified by the transaction record;

receiving a biometric from the different device in response to the biometric authentication request;

performing the biometric authentication based on the biometric; and

generating a digital certificate responsive to the biometric authentication that authorizes the transaction specified by the transaction record.

16. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a query specified by the biometric authentication.

17. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a phrase specified by the biometric authentication.

18. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise receiving a voice recording.

19. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a model associated with the biometric authentication.

20. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise expiring the digital certificate according to a time.