OBJECT AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM

• US 20100321155A1
• Filed: 05/25/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DataTreasury Corporation, Identity Validation Products LLC
• Original Assignee: DataTreasury Corporation
• Inventors: BALLARD, CLAUDIO R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,433,921 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.81
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/805 Lightweight hardware, e.g. radio-frequency identification [RFID] or sensor
• 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

Abstract

A system employing enrollment information and the quality of the enrollment information. The enrollment information includes data unique to the identification of a person. The system also stores biometric sensor quality information. When a person seeks to authenticate his/her identity, the sensor transmits the sensor quality data along with the biometric attribute data to the system. The transmitted data is correlated with the enrollment data, and quality of the enrollment data, to produce a score indicative of the probability of a correct identification.

Claims

1. A method of forming a biometric repository to prevent imposter activity, comprising the steps of:

forming in a database an enrollment structure, said enrollment structure having a hierarchy of levels, each level having data identifying one or more aspects or features of a person, where the personal data is more comprehensive and detailed as the level increases in the hierarchy, whereby the assurances that a person is who he/she says they are increases; and

forming a trust level in a database, said trust level having a hierarchy of levels, each said level storing one or more sets of biometric data of a person, whereby as the level of trust increases the assurances that the person is who he/she says they are.

2. The method of claim 1, further including using corresponding levels of enrollment and trust as a measure in determining with a predetermined assurance that the person is not an imposter.