Configurable personal digital identity device with imager responsive to user interaction

• US 9,086,689 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sideassure Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Tyfone Incorporated
• Inventors: Narendra, Siva G., Tadepalli, Prabhakar, Chakraborty, Saurav
• Primary Examiner(s): Tweel, Jr., John A
• Application Number:
  US13/844,339
• Publication Number:
  US 20140266599A1
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.81, 713/185
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 1/03 for comparing digital signals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

A personal digital ID device provides a digital identifier to a service for a predetermined duration in response to user interaction. The user interaction may include a button press. The personal digital ID device may be in the form of a bracelet, a key fob, or other form factor. The service may be provided by a mobile device, in the cloud, or elsewhere.

Claims

1. A personal digital ID device comprising:

a crypto/cipher engine having at least one digital identifier;

a button accessible to a user of the personal digital ID device;

an imager to capture an image to be used for authentication;

a radio;

a hard coded program store; and

a processor coupled to the hard coded program store, the crypto/cipher engine, the button, the imager, and the radio, the processor configured to execute instructions retrieved from the hard coded program store and to receive an image and to set a radio communication parameter in response to user interaction with the button, and to provide authentication to a cloud service using the digital identifier and the radio, wherein the authentication is available only for a predetermined period of time after the user interaction with the button.

2. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the radio communication parameter is a Bluetooth pairing parameter.

3. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the user interaction with the button comprises one button press.

4. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the user interaction with the button comprises two button presses.

5. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the user interaction with the button comprises a button press lasting longer than a predetermined threshold.

6. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 further comprising at least one light emitting diode (LED), the at least one LED reporting the radio communication parameter.

7. A personal digital ID device comprising:

a crypto/cipher engine having at least one digital identifier;

a battery;

a button accessible to a user of the personal digital ID device;

an imager to capture an image to be used for authentication;

a radio;

a hard coded program store; and

a processor coupled to the hard coded program store, the crypto/cipher engine, the button, the imager, the battery, and the radio, the processor configured to execute instructions retrieved from the hard coded program store and to receive an image from the imager and to make the at least one digital identifier available to a service over a radio link for a predetermined period of time in response to a first user interaction with the button and to set a radio communication parameter in response to a second user interaction with the button.

8. The personal digital ID device of claim 7 wherein the radio communication parameter is a Bluetooth pairing parameter.

9. The personal digital ID device of claim 7 wherein the second user interaction comprises one button press.

10. The personal digital ID device of claim 7 wherein the second user interaction comprises two button presses.

11. The personal digital ID device of claim 7 wherein the second user interaction comprises a button press lasting longer than a predetermined threshold.

12. The personal digital ID device of claim 7 further comprising at least one light emitting diode (LED), the at least one LED reporting the radio communication parameter.

13. The personal digital ID device of claim 7 wherein the radio communication parameter comprises a reset state.

14. The personal digital ID device of claim 7 wherein the radio comprises a near-field radio.

15. The personal digital ID device of claim 7 wherein the radio comprises a non-near-field radio.

16. A personal digital ID device comprising:

a crypto/cipher engine having at least one digital identifier;

a button accessible to a user of the personal digital ID device;

an imager to capture an image to be used for authentication;

a near-field radio;

a non-near-field radio;

a hard coded program store; and

a processor coupled to the hard coded program store, the crypto/cipher engine, the button, the imager, the near-field radio, and the non-near-field radio, the processor configured to execute instructions retrieved from the hard coded program store, receive an image from the imager, and to make the at least one digital identifier available to a service over a radio link for a predetermined period of time in response to a first user interaction with the button and to set a radio communication parameter in response to a second user interaction with the button.

17. The personal digital ID device of claim 16 wherein the second user interaction comprises one button press.

18. The personal digital ID device of claim 16 wherein the second user interaction comprises two button presses.

19. The personal digital ID device of claim 16 wherein the second user interaction comprises a button press lasting longer than a predetermined threshold.

20. The personal digital ID device of claim 16 wherein the radio communication parameter comprises a reset state.