Method of Criminal Profiling and Person Identification Using Cognitive/Behavioral Biometric Fingerprint Analysis

• US 20150096002A1
• Filed: 09/24/2014
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bruce D. Jankowski, Dustin M. Engelhaupt, Laird H. Shuart, Marcia L. Shuart, Sharon E. Jankowski, Thomas R. Pfannenstiel
• Original Assignee: Bruce D. Jankowski, Dustin M. Engelhaupt, Laird H. Shuart, Marcia L. Shuart, Sharon E. Jankowski, Thomas R. Pfannenstiel
• Inventors: Shuart, Laird H., Shuart, Marcia L, Jankowski, Sharon E, Jankowski, Bruce D, Pfannenstiel, Thomas R., Engelhaupt, Dustin M
• Granted Patent: US 9,396,319 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints

Abstract

A method of criminal profiling and person identification that utilizes an online identity software-based solution which focuses on the cognitive/behavioral aspects of an individual who is attempting to gain or has gained unauthorized access to a computer system or portions of that system, who may be posing as an authorized user of that system. There is an emphasis on identifying the intruder'"'"'s unique cognitive/behavioral biometric fingerprint while he is creating usable electronic evidence during his criminal behavior in cyberspace.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium tangibly embodying a computer readable program within a computer system having internet and/or intranet connectivity, wherein the computer-readable program when executed:

(i) initiates an authorization session and/or otherwise prompts a potential intruder with a cognitive fingerprint screen or page;

(ii) that calls for a response that requires specific measurable cognitive/behavioral biometrics;

(iii) the text of which includes one or more outside variables;

(iv) that comprise one or more unknown shared profiling secrets;

(v) receives and records each voluntary measurable response made;

(vi) plots the measureable response on a cognitive grid;

(vii) analyzes the response taking into consideration its'"'"' placement on the grid;

(viii) transforms each response that meets or exceeds a specified level of accuracy into an outside credential creating usable electric evidence;

(ix) generates data output regarding the outside credential;

(x) initiates a prescribed action based on the outside credential, and;

(xi) stores data in, and retrieves data from, a target storage area.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein because the execution of the computer readable program is partially dependent upon the willingness of an impaired user/intruder to continue to provide responses to the outside variables presented, the basis for a voluntary self-incriminating authentication/identity management system is formulated which becomes part of a computer system'"'"'s identity management system that can be used to recognize, profile, and potentially identify an authorized or non-authorized user as an intruder.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein during an authorization session the computer program further prompts the intruder with additional cognitive fingerprint screens or pages that each contain at least one unknown shared profiling secret at certain regular, periodic, or user-initiated intervals.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the outside credentials created and associated data output, when accumulated, form the basis for one or more cognitive biometrics that can be used for profiling and person identification purposes.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the execution of the computer readable program creates an additional layer of security for the computing device and for the computer system.

6. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the execution of the computer readable program creates the ability to recognize a person posing as a specific authorized user as an intruder by the use of a cognitive function/cognitive fingerprint grid that provides for the identification of a level of cognitive/behavioral skills that does not match the capabilities of the specific authorized user to whom the credentials belong.

7. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein if an authorized user has presented his valid logon credentials and a computer system'"'"'s identity management system fails to authenticate him because of his cognitive/behavioral biometric measurements, this false rejection shall be designated as:

“

user not recognizable—

or user is impaired”

.

8. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein execution of the computer readable program can potentially identify an intruder at the time of intrusion, and therefore can create usable electronic evidence at the time criminal activity is taking place.

9. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein a computer system can determine whether an intruder has logged on posing as an authorized user or whether he has hijacked an active logon session to gain access to the system, creating the ability to introduce alternative versions of the four level process to profile and/or identify the potential intruder.

10. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the execution of the computer readable program provides the potential to create a criminal profile of the intruder.

11. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein a computer system is able to create an unknown shared profiling secret between the system and the intruder without the intruder knowing exactly what the secret is, a secret that the intruder therefore knows without being able to write or recite it, which can be used for criminal profiling purposes and person identification because there is a high probability that only that same person could respond to that same unknown shared profiling secret in exactly the same manner.

12. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein a fingerprint screen or page is presented to a potential intruder that comprise one or more unknown shared profiling secrets that have been specifically designed to capture specified cognitive/behavioral biometrics, and which can be used in determining the intruder'"'"'s cognitive fingerprint.

13. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein outside credentials that have been created (and associated data) will be stored in a computer system'"'"'s memory utilizing an artificial neural network model that focuses on connections and relationships allowing numerous types of pattern recognition and pattern matching searches to be done to create analytics for the purpose of facilitating criminal profiling and person identification.

14. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein each response made to an outside variable may be considered to be part of a virtual interview/interrogation process.

15. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the intruder'"'"'s forensic awareness and technological knowledge can be considered to be cognitive biometrics, and as such can be plotted on the cognitive grid and used to differentiate the intruder from the authorized user he is posing as and from other authorized users.

16. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein in order to determine whether an intruder may actually be an impaired authorized user, specially designed outside variables are presented in order to identify a specific type of cognitive impairment, and the scope of the outside variables presented can be changed to target a specific type of impairment at the time the responses indicate a specific type of mental impairment is involved.

17. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein a computer system and the computer system'"'"'s sponsor are safer, because the system can recognize that an authorized user is cognitively or otherwise impaired, and as such should be considered to be a danger to the computer system and others and denied access to the system.

18. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the multiple checkpoints that have been created by the multi-factor authentication/identity management system to recognize and authenticate a user, can also be used to profile and identify an intruder who gains at least a threshold level of unauthorized access to the system.

19. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the execution of the computer readable program identifies specified cognitive/behavioral biometric traits of an intruder at a crime scene, as a crime is being committed.

20. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein execution of the computer readable program allows a computer system and a suspected intruder into that system to jointly create electronic evidence of a specific digital crime at the time a crime in taking place that would not exist otherwise.