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SECURE METHOD AND APPARATUS TO VERIFY PERSONAL IDENTITY OVER A NETWORK

  • US 20100150353A1
  • Filed: 11/10/2009
  • Published: 06/17/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A self-contained apparatus for on-demand authentication of a user over a network of computing devices, where a first computing device connected to the network of computing devices issues a temporary challenge to the user for authentication, comprising:

  • means for capturing biometric information of the user in response to a received temporary challenge from the first computing device, whose validity is limited in time;

    means for encrypting the biometric information with the received challenge as an encrypted response;

    means for returning the encrypted challenge to the first computing device; and

    means for authenticating the user by processing the encrypted challenge within a limited amount of time.

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