Personal digital identity device with microphone responsive to user interaction

• US 9,154,500 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• 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): BROWN, VERNAL U
• Application Number:
  US13/844,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20140266605A1
• Time in Patent Office: 935 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.84
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/065 Continuous authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/68 Gesture-dependent or behaviour-dependent

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;

a microphone to capture a user voice for authentication;

a near-field radio;

a non-near-field radio; and

a processor coupled to the crypto/cipher engine, the button, the microphone, the near-field radio, and the non-near-field radio, the processor configured to validate a user through voiceprint analysis and to turn on the near-field radio and the non-near field radio for a predetermined duration in response to two pushes of the button.

2. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the near-field radio comprises a near field communications (NFC) radio.

3. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the near-field radio comprises an ISO14443 compatible radio.

4. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the near-field radio comprises an ISO18092 compatible radio.

5. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the non-near-field radio comprises a Bluetooth compatible radio.

6. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the non-near-field radio comprises a WiFi compatible radio.

7. The personal digital ID device of claim 1 wherein the non-near-field radio comprises a transceiver compatible with a body area network.

8. The personal digital ID device of claim 7 wherein the transceiver comprises an IEEE 802.15.4 compatible transceiver.