Individual authentication device and cellular terminal apparatus

• US 7,242,277 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2003
• Issued: 07/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Minemura, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): YANG, CLARA I
• Application Number:
  US10/469,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20040085188A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,582 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.53, 340/5.82, 340/5.83, 340/133, 340/5.52, 382/124, 713/186, 713/202
• US Class Current: 340/5.53
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3226 Use of secure elements separate from M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4014 Identity check for transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/425 using two different networks, one for transaction and one for security confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1306 non-optical, e.g. ultrasonic or capacitive sensing
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2011/02 related to amusement parks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/26 using a biometric sensor integrated in the pass
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/30 the meter or calculation of charges not being controlled from an exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/47 Fraud detection or prevention means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/48 Secure or trusted billing, e.g. trusted elements or encryption
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0148 Fraud detection or prevention means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0156 Secure and trusted billing, e.g. trusted elements, encryption, digital signature, codes or double check mechanisms to secure billing calculation and information
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/32 Involving wireless systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/92 : Autonomous calculations of charges in terminal, i.e. meter not controlled from exchange

Abstract

A personal authentication device can perform a fingerprint authentication processing by simple operation steps. The personal authentication device is installed in a slot of a portable phone. Approval authentication is carried out for a person who presses a button installed in a fingerprint sensor of the personal authentication device. Transaction data output from the personal authentication device is transmitted using an external communication module of the portable phone.

Claims

1. A personal authentication device that is connected with a portable terminal apparatus, the personal authentication device comprising:

a fingerprint sensor; and

a module that authenticates an operator identity by collating stored fingerprint collation data corresponding to a fingerprint of an operator finger with fingerprint data obtained by a fingerprint sensor when the operator presses the fingerprint sensor with the operator finger, and that authorizes a transaction and transmission of confidential transaction data necessary for receiving services to outside the portable terminal apparatus by the operator'"'"'s approval when the operator presses the fingerprint sensor with the operator finger,

wherein, by a single act of pressing the fingerprint sensor by the operator finger, a switch activates the fingerprint sensor and supplies power to the fingerprint sensor, and the operator identity authentication, transaction authorization and transmission of confidential transaction data are implemented.

2. The personal authentication device according to claim 1, the module comprising:

a tamper resistant storage area for storing the fingerprint collation data and the confidential transaction data; and

a fingerprint collation processor that authenticates the operator identity by collating the fingerprint collation data with the fingerprint data obtained by the fingerprint sensor,

wherein the fingerprint collation processor extracts the confidential transaction data from the tamper resistant storage area only when the operator identity is authenticated, and

wherein the fingerprint collation processor outputs to the portable terminal apparatus the confidential transaction data and a transmission instruction to transmit the confidential transaction data to outside the portable terminal apparatus.

3. The personal authentication device according to claim 2,

wherein, when the fingerprint sensor is pressed, the switch turns on, power is supplied to the tamper resistant storage area and the fingerprint collation processor is activated.

4. A portable terminal apparatus that includes the personal authentication device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a communicator that transmits the confidential transaction data output from the personal authentication device to outside the portable terminal apparatus based on the transmission instruction output from the personal authentication device.

5. The personal authentication device according to claim 2,

wherein the fingerprint collation processor adds a signature by the fingerprint collation processor to the confidential transaction data to output to the portable terminal apparatus.

6. The personal authentication device according to claim 1,

wherein the fingerprint sensor and the switch are positioned to at least partially overlap with each other in a direction in which pressure is increased.

7. A portable terminal apparatus that includes the personal authentication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communicator that transmits data output from the personal authentication device to outside the portable terminal apparatus.

8. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the communicator comprises a radio communicator which operates only upon pressing the fingerprint sensor.

9. The personal authentication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communicator that transmits data to outside the portable terminal apparatus,

wherein the module comprises;

a tamper resistant storage area for storing fingerprint collation data and the confidential transaction data; and

a fingerprint collation processor that authenticates the operator identity by collating the fingerprint collation data with the fingerprint data obtained by the fingerprint sensor, and

wherein the fingerprint collation processor extracts the confidential transaction data from the tamper resistant storage area only when the operator identity is authenticated and transmits the confidential transaction data to outside the portable terminal apparatus using the communicator.

10. A portable terminal apparatus that includes the personal authentication device according to claim 9.

11. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein the communicator comprises a radio communicator which operates only upon pressing the fingerprint sensor.

12. The personal authentication device according to claim 9,

wherein the communicator comprises a radio communicator which operates only upon pressing the fingerprint sensor.

13. The personal authentication device according to claim 1,

wherein the module is not activated unless the fingerprint sensor is pressed for more than a predetermined period of time.