Method and system for person/speaker verification via communications systems

• US 7,627,472 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2005
• Issued: 12/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Runge, Fred, Trinkel, Marian, Mueller, Christel
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan; Vijay B
• Application Number:
  US11/083,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20050228675A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,719 Days
• Field of Search: 704/246, 704/249, 704/273, 704/270, 704/275, 704/E17.015, 704/E17.009, 704/E17.016, 704/E17.003, 379/88.02, 379/189, 379/93.12, 379/93.25, 382/115, 382/118, 705/44, 705/75, 705/14, 705/39, 713/186, 713/171
• US Class Current: 704/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40 Authorisation, e.g. identification of payer or payee, verification of customer or shop credentials; Review and approval of payers, e.g. check credit lines or negative lists
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231

Abstract

A method and a system for person/speaker verification via different communications systems. The system may include a control logic (SL) having access to a voice-controlled dialog system (DS) having verification dialogs stored for querying, a biometrics customer profile (BK), in which the personal biometric data of customers are stored and a provider database (PD), which contains information regarding protected database areas and services in conjunction with the biometric methods authorized for verification. The method for person/speaker verification is designed to ascertain, transmit, analyze and evaluate via telecommunications systems the different personal biometric data that are suitable to establish unequivocally the access authorization of a customer.

Claims

1. A method for person/speaker verification via communications systems on the basis of biometric verification methods, comprising:

preparing an individual biometrics customer profile for every customer, in accordance with communications data and communications behavior of the respective customer, in which all terminals and terminal configurations are stored together with respective line identifications, which are configured to be verifiable on the basis of biometric verification methods;

assigning each line identification at least one biometric verification method, the technical implementation of which with the aid of the customer'"'"'s terminal or terminal configuration is technically possible, all biometric basic data of the customer required for a verification on the basis of possible biometric verification methods being queried within the framework of a registration process and likewise recorded in the biometrics customer profile;

storing all services protected via biometric verification methods in a provider database together with the access addresses and the biometric methods authorized for accessing the services;

wherein in the event of a request on the part of a customer for access to a service protected by biometric verification methods, via a matrix-like control logic in conjunction with a module for determining the telecommunications line, on the basis of the line identification of the terminal of the calling customer in conjunction with the access number/access identification of the requested service from the information stored in the customer'"'"'s biometrics customer profile and in the provider database, the customer is offered with respect to the biometric verification methods authorized within the framework of the requested service, if required in succession all verification options stored in his personal biometrics customer profile in accordance with the terminals and/or terminal configurations available.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein from a multitude of verification options ascertained for the customer, the customer is offered in succession alternative verification options, and the customer, following an unsuccessful conclusion of a first verification attempt, is offered a verification method from the still available alternative verification methods, for the implementation of which a change of the communications connection is required.

3. A system for person/speaker verification via communications systems, comprising:

a control logic, having access to a voice-controlled dialog system having verification dialogs stored for the query;

a module for determining the telecommunications line;

a biometrics customer profile database having the biometrics customer profiles of all customers; and

a provider database,

wherein the biometrics customer profile contains the names of the customers, the customer'"'"'s existing terminals/terminal configurations together with the associated local allocations and the line identifications, the biometric verification methods possible for each terminal or for each terminal configuration and the biometric basic data of the respective customer required for the respective biometric verification method, and the provider database includes all access numbers/access addresses to database areas/services, the access to which is protected by biometric verification methods, for every protected database area/service, all biometric verification methods authorized for the access being stored, ready to be queried.

4. The system as recited in claim 3, wherein the control logic is constructed according to the principle of a control matrix.