TRANSACTION AUTHENTICATION PLATFORM USING VIDEO

• US 20090171850A1
• Filed: 12/26/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Yuval, Gideon A.
• Application Number:
  US11/964,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20090171850A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3829 involving key management

Abstract

A transaction authentication platform using video is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a computing environment comprises a video transaction authentication engine and an instruction set comprising at least one instruction to the video transaction authentication to process, store, manage, and monitor data representative of video transaction authentication requests to generate a trust capsule representative of video authentication trust for a consumer. Consumers, merchants, and transaction processors can illustratively cooperate with the video transaction authentication engine as part of transaction fulfillment and reconciliation. Illustratively, a merchant can request generated trust capsule data for a consumer and compare the received data with the consumer at the point of sale to determine whether to fulfill a transaction. Additionally, the video data about a consumer can be captured at the point of sale and stored as part of a transaction dispute resolution process.

Claims

1. A system to facilitate transaction authentication using video, comprising:

a video transaction authentication engine operable to process video data;

an instruction set comprising at least one instruction to instruct the video transaction authentication engine to process video data to generate and store a trust capsule for a first cooperating party,

wherein the video transaction authentication engine provides the stored trust capsule data to a second cooperating party as part of transaction authentication being performed by the second cooperating party comprising,

comparing received trust capsule data by the second cooperating party with features of the first cooperating party observed by the second cooperating party.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a data store cooperative with the video transaction operative to store data comprising video data, transaction data, merchant data, transaction processor data, and consumer data.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a communication network operative to communicate data comprising video data, transaction data, merchant data, transaction processor data, and consumer data.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a digital video capture device for use in capturing digital video data.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the video transaction authentication engine comprises a computing application operative on a computing environment.

6. The system as recited in claim 3, wherein the video transaction authentication engine is accessible by one or more cooperating parties comprising merchant, consumer, and transaction processor.

7. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein a merchant cooperates with a transaction processor using a secure communication protocol.

8. The system as recited in claim 7, wherein the secure communication protocol comprises public-key encryption.

9. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein a consumer electronically communicates video data with a transaction processor to establish video transaction authentication trust.

10. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the transaction processor employs one or more selected trust models to establish the video transaction authentication trust comprising trust model for establishing credit.

11. A method for facilitating transaction authentication using video comprising:

receiving electronic video data of a consumer;

processing the electronic video data of the consumer to generate a trust capsule for the consumer;

storing the generated trust capsule of the consumer;

requesting, by a merchant, trust capsule data for the consumer;

providing the stored trust capsule to the merchant; and

comparing by the merchant received trust capsule data of the consumer with one or more features of the consumer as observed by the merchant as part of transaction authentication.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising electronically providing by the merchant other consumer data comprising personal identification data and account data as part of the request for the stored trust capsule.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising associating other personal identification data and account data for the consumer to generate the trust capsule for the consumer.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, further comprising processing the other received consumer data with the received electronic video data for the consumer to generate the trust capsule for the consumer.

15. The method as recited in claim 14, further comprising presenting a video transaction authentication trust to a merchant by the consumer, the video transaction authentication trust representative of the consumer trust capsule.

16. The method as recited in claim 15, further comprising electronically communicating a request for transaction authentication having personal/account data for the consumer captured at the point-of-sale/time-of-sale using public key encryption.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, further comprising, comparing the personal/account data for the consumer with data of the stored generated trust capsule.

18. The method as recited in claim 17, further comprising generating transaction authentication representative of a positive transaction authentication based on a positive comparison of the video data from the received request for video transaction authentication of the generated trust capsule with observed features of the consumer.

19. The method as recited in claim 17, further comprising generating transaction authentication representative of a negative transaction authentication based on a negative comparison between the video data from the received request for video transaction authentication of the generated trust capsule with observed features of the consumer.

20. In a computing environment, a method to perform transaction authentication comprising:

receiving electronic video data of a consumer;

processing the electronic video data of the consumer to establish a trust capsule for the consumer;

storing the generated trust capsule for the consumer;

responsive to a request for video transaction authentication for the consumer, the request having point-of-sale/time-of-sale captured video data of the consumer, comparing the video data from the received request for video transaction authentication with the stored trust profile of the consumer; and

providing data representative of the authentication of the transaction based on the results of the comparison of the video data from the received request for video transaction authentication with the stored trust profile of the consumer.