Voice activated application for mobile devices

• US 9,639,682 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2014
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The ADT Security Corporation (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ADT US Holdings, Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: North, Raymond, Chu, Frank, Norris, Jocelyne
• Primary Examiner(s): Schwartz, Darren B
• Application Number:
  US14/562,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20150161370A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces

Abstract

A system and methods for performing authentication to enable a user to access a site monitoring system are provided. The authentication includes voice authentication having at least one threshold that may be dynamically adjustable between false-rejection and false-acceptance. The system includes a processor configured to adjust the at least one threshold for the voice authentication based on at least one factor associated with the site monitoring system. The processor may be configured to perform voice authentication based on the adjusted at least one threshold to authenticate the user.

Claims

1. A system for performing authentication to enable a user to access a site monitoring system via a user interface, the authentication including voice authentication having at least one threshold that is dynamically adjustable between false-rejection and false-acceptance, the system comprising a user device, the user device having:

a memory configured to store the at least one threshold;

a processor in communication with the memory, the processor configured to;

adjust the at least one threshold for the voice authentication, the adjustment to the at least one threshold being based on at least one factor associated with the site monitoring system, the at least one threshold being adjusted to increase a probability of false-rejection when the device is not proximate a site monitored by the site monitoring system, and the at least one threshold being adjusted to increase a probability of false-acceptances when the device is proximate the site monitored by the site monitoring system; and

perform voice authentication based on the adjusted at least one threshold to authenticate the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user device is a portable wireless device.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a server in communication with the user device, the server including:

a communication interface configured to communicate a plurality of predetermined thresholds for voice authentication to the device, the plurality of predetermined thresholds corresponding to a plurality of factors including the at least one factor; and

the processor configured to;

determine that one of the plurality of factors are met; and

determine at least one of the plurality of thresholds corresponding to the factor that is met, the adjustment of the at least one threshold for the voice authentication being based on the determined at least one of the plurality of thresholds.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one factor includes at least one of geo-location data for the user device, Internet Protocol address of the user device, login enforcement by the user device, background acoustic environment of the user device and a predefined time period since a last non-voice based login with the site monitoring system.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the at least one threshold is adjusted based on at least on the geo-location data for the user device associated with the site monitoring system.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one threshold includes a degree of match between a voice signal and a voice pattern.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the voice authentication requires matching at least one audio challenge phrase.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the authentication is a multi-factored authentication in combination with the voice authentication.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the multi-factor authentication includes at least one of knowledge based authentication, security token based authentication, user device based authentication, biometric based authentication and manual login.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the multi-factor authentication provides access to predetermined functionality including at least one of Arm/Disarm, Lock/Unlock and accessing video.

11. A method for performing authentication to enable a user to access a site monitoring system via a user interface, the authentication including voice authentication having at least one threshold that is dynamically adjustable between false-rejection and false-acceptance, the method comprising:

adjusting the at least one threshold for the voice authentication, the adjustment of the at least one threshold being based on at least one factor associated with the site monitoring system, the at least one threshold being adjusted to increase a probability of false-rejection when a user device associated with the site monitoring system is not proximate a site monitored by the site monitoring system, and the at least one threshold being adjusted to increase a probability of false-acceptances when the user device is proximate the site monitored by the site monitoring system; and

performing voice authentication based on the adjusted at least one threshold to authenticate the user.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one factor includes at least one of geo-location data of the device, Internet Protocol address of the device, login enforcement by the device, background acoustic environment of the device and a predefined time period since a last non-voice based login with the site monitoring system.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one threshold is adjusted based on at least on the geo-location data for a user device associated with the site monitoring system.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one threshold includes a degree of match between a voice signal and a voice pattern.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the voice authentication requires matching at least one audio challenge phrase.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the user authentication is a multi-factored authentication in combination with the voice authentication.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the multi-factor authentication is includes at least one of knowledge based authentication, security token based authentication, user device based authentication, biometric based authentication and manual login.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the multi-factor authentication provides access to predetermined functionality including at least one of Arm/Disarm, Lock/Unlock and accessing video.