Facial profile password to modify user account data for hands-free transactions

• US 10,397,220 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2016
• Issued: 08/27/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Chandrasekaran, Sashikanth, Ho, Denise, Kalenichenko, Dmitry, Chitilian, Varouj, Zwiebel, Timothy Raymond, Palczewski, Michal
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Lynn D
• Assistant Examiner(s): McCoy, Richard A
• Application Number:
  US15/143,453
• Publication Number:
  US 20160323274A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,215 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/204 comprising interface for record bearing medium or carrier for electronic funds transfer or payment credit
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• 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: H04W 12/06 Authentication

Abstract

An account management system establishes an account for a user. The user enters user account information into the account and the account management system establishes a facial template for the user based on an image of the face of the user. The user requests to change user account information at a merchant POS (POS) device. The merchant POS device captures a facial image of the user and transmits the image the account management system, which generates a facial template and compares the generated facial template against the existing facial template associated with user account. If the generated facial template is less than a threshold difference from the existing facial template, the user may update user account information at the merchant POS device, which communicates the updated user account information to the account management system. The account management system associates the updated user account information with the user account.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method to enable updates to user account information in response to facial image verification of users located at service system locations, comprising, by one or more computing devices operated by an account management system:

receiving, from a user computing device, an account identifier corresponding to a user account associated with a user associated with the user computing device and a beacon device identifier, the user computing device retransmitting the beacon device identifier received via a network from a beacon device at a location associated with the beacon device identifier;

retrieving, an existing facial template associated with the user account based on the account identifier corresponding to the user account;

adding, the retrieved existing facial template to a current customer log of one or more existing facial templates corresponding to user computing devices that retransmitted the beacon device identifier to the one or more computing devices;

receiving, from a service computing device, a request for the current customer log;

transmitting, to the service computing device, the current customer log, the current customer log comprising the retrieved existing facial template associated with the user account, the service computing device identifying the user account based on determining that a degree of similarity between a facial template generated based on a capture of a facial image of the user and the retrieved existing facial template is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold amount;

receiving, from the service computing device at the location, the account identifier corresponding to the user account, updated account data, and a request to update existing account data in the user account;

and replacing one or more items of the existing account data in the user account with the updated account data.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the facial image of the user is captured by a service computing device.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the facial image of the user is captured by a camera of the user computing device camera.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the updated account data comprises one or more of updated user contact information, updated user demographic information, updated user payment account information, and an updated user facial template.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the updated account data comprises additions, deletions, or edits to the account data.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the generated facial template generated based on the captured facial image comprises a computer code representation of the captured facial image.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein comparing the facial template generated based on the captured facial image to the existing facial template to determine the degree of similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and the existing facial template comprises:

determining, by the service computing device, a similarity value for one or more regions of the generate facial template and one or more regions of the existing facial template for each of one or more key features, each similarity value describing a similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and the existing facial template for the each of the one or more key features; and

determining, by the service computing device, the degree of similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and the existing facial template based on each similarity value determined for each of the one or more key features.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the one or more key features comprise one or more of shape, color, line, value, space, form, and texture.

9. A computer program product to enable updates a user account information in response to facial image verification of users located at service system locations, comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable program instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computer cause the computer to;

receive, from a user computing device, an account identifier corresponding to a user account associated with the user computing device and a beacon device identifier,

wherein the user computing device retransmits the beacon device identifier received via a network from a beacon device at a location associated with the beacon device identifier;

retrieve, from the user account, an existing facial template;

add the retrieved existing facial template to a current customer log of one or more existing facial templates corresponding to riser computing devices that retransmitted the beacon device identifier to the one or more computing devices;

receive, from a service computing device, a request for the current customer log;

transmit, to the service computing device at the location associated with the beacon device identifier, the current customer log comprising the existing facial template associated with the user account,

wherein the service computing device receives a facial image of a user associated with the user account captured at the location, generates a facial template, and identifies the user based on determining that a degree of similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured image and the existing facial template is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold amount;

receive, from the service computing device, the account identifier corresponding to the user account, updated account data, and a request to update existing account data in the user account;

and replace one or more items of the existing account data in the user account with the updated account data.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the facial image of the user is captured by a user computing device camera.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the facial template generated based on the captured facial image comprises a computer code representation of the captured facial image.

12. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the existing user account data comprises one or more of user contact information, user demographic information, user payment account information, and a user facial template.

13. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the updated user account data comprises one or more of additions, deletions, or edits to the existing user account data.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein comparing the generated facial template to the existing facial template to determine the degree of similarity between the generated facial template and the existing facial template comprises:

determining, by the service computing device, a similarity value for one or more regions of the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and one or more regions of the existing facial template for each of one or more key features, each similarity value describing a similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and the existing facial template for the each of the one or more key features; and

determining, by the service computing device, the degree of similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and the existing facial template based on each similarity value determined for each of the one or more key features.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the one or more key features comprise one or more of shape, color, line, value, space, form, and texture.

16. A system to enable updates to user account information in response to facial image verification of users located at service system locations, comprising:

a storage device;

and a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor executes application code instructions that are stored in the storage device to cause the system to;

receive, from a user computing device, an account identifier corresponding to a user account associated with a user associated with the user computing device and a beacon device identifier,

wherein the user computing device retransmits the beacon device identifier received via a network from a beacon device at a location associated with the beacon device identifier;

retrieve, from the user account corresponding to the received account identifier, an existing template;

add the retrieved existing facial template to a current customer log of one or more existing facial templates corresponding to user computing devices that retransmitted the beacon device identifier to the processor;

receive, from a service computing device, a request for the current customer log;

transmit, to a service is device at the location associated with the beacon device identifier, the current customer log comprising existing facial template associated with the user account, wherein the service computing device receives a facial image of the user captured at the location, generates a facial template, and identifies the user based on determining that a degree of similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured image and the exiting facial template is greater than of equal to a predetermined threshold amount;

receive, from the service computing device at the merchant location, the account identifier corresponding to the user account, updated account data, and a request to update existing account data in the user account;

and replace one or more items of the existing account data in the user account with the updated account data.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the updated user account data comprises one or more of additions, deletions, or edits to user account data.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the facial template generated based on the captured facial image comprises a computer code representation of the captured facial image.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein comparing the facial template generated based on the captured facial image to the existing facial template to determine the degree of similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and the existing facial template comprises:

determining a similarity value for one or more regions of the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and one or more regions of the existing facial template for each of one or more key features, each similarity value describing a similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and the existing facial template for the each of the one or more key feature; and

determining the degree of similarity between the facial template generated based on the captured facial image and the existing facial template based on each similarity value determined for each of the one or more key features.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the one or more key features comprise one or more of shape, color, line, value, space, form, and texture.