Method And Apparatus For Voice Signature Authentication

• US 20120084078A1
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Moganti, Madhav, Sankalia, Anish
• Granted Patent: US 9,118,669 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• 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 scalable voice signature authentication capability is provided herein. The scalable voice signature authentication capability enables authentication of varied services such as speaker identification (e.g. private banking and access to healthcare account records), voice signature as a password (e.g. secure access for remote services and document retrieval) and the Internet and its various services (e.g., online shopping), and the like

Claims

1. A voice signature authenticator, comprising:

one or more communication provider interfaces configured to receive communication content from a plurality of communication providers; and

a voice signature database configured to store the communication content.

2. The voice signature authenticator of claim 1, wherein the voice signature database comprises a voice biometric processing plane and an identity tracking intelligence processing plane.

3. The voice signature authenticator of claim 2, wherein the communication content comprises at least one of:

voice biometric information;

digital or analog voice samples; and

voice channel properties.

4. The voice signature authenticator of claim 3, further comprising a service provider interface configured to receive a voice signature authentication directive related to the communication content stored in the voice signature database.

5. The voice signature authenticator of claim 4, wherein the voice signature authentication directive comprises one or more algorithms.

6. The voice signature authenticator of claim 5, wherein the one or more algorithms comprise at least one of:

comparing the location of an end user'"'"'s communication device with the location of a POS device;

comparing whether an end user is a member of an authorized group;

retrieving at least one item from the voice signature database; and

requesting a fraud score from an external source.

7. The voice signature authenticator of claim 5, further comprising a voice signature recognition server configured to parse the voice signature authentication directive.

8. The voice signature authenticator of claim 7, wherein the voice signature recognition server applies one or more authentication rules based on the parsed voice signature authentication directive, the one or more authentication rules comprising one or more biometric processing plane items and one or more identity tracking intelligence processing plane items.

9. The voice signature authenticator of claim 8, wherein the one or more authentication rules comprises initiating a voice analysis communication session.

10. The voice signature authenticator of claim 4, further comprising an end user interface configured to receive an end user request related to the voice signature authentication database.

11. The voice signature authenticator of claim 9, wherein the end user request comprises at least one of:

monitoring one more items in the voice signature database;

managing one more items in the voice signature database;

managing one more end user configuration items;

opting in/out of retrieval of communication content;

creating one or more automated notifications;

deleting an end user record;

activating/de-activating the automatic retrieval of communication content; and

activating/de-activating voice signature authentication.

12. A biometric signature authenticator, comprising:

a service provider interface configured to receive a biometric signature directive;

a biometric signature database configured to retrieve a meta biometric signature based on the biometric signature directive, the biometric signature database comprising a biometric processing plane and an identity tracking intelligence processing plane;

a challenge biometric interface configured for receiving a challenged biometric signature; and

a voice signature recognition server configured to compare the challenged biometric with the meta biometric signature.

13. The biometric signature authenticator of claim 12, wherein the biometric signature database is adapted to enable associating both a first meta biometric signature and a second meta biometric signature with the same end user.

14. The biometric signature authenticator of claim 13, wherein the first meta biometric signature contains at least one type of information different than the second meta biometric signature.

15. The biometric signature authenticator of claim 13, wherein the first meta biometric signature contains communication provider information not contained in the second meta biometric signature.

16. A method of authenticating a biometric signature, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a biometric signature authentication directive;

parsing the biometric signature authentication directive;

applying one or more authentication rules;

scoring the results of the applied authentication rules; and

providing a biometric signature authentication response.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more authentication rules comprise one or more biometric processing plane items and one or more identity tracking intelligence processing plane items.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the step of applying comprises automatically establishing a voice analysis communication session with a communication device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the biometric signature authentication directive comprises one or more algorithms.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the one or more algorithms comprise at least one of:

comparing the location of an end user'"'"'s communication device with the location of a POS device;

comparing whether an end user is a member of an authorized group;

retrieving at least one item from the biometric signature database; and

requesting a fraud score from an external source.