REAL AND VIRTUAL IDENTITY VERIFICATION CIRCUIT, SYSTEM THEREOF AND ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION METHOD

• US 20130290185A1
• Filed: 03/28/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samton International Development Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samton International Development Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: SUNG, Chia-Yu, JIAN, Yu-Chuan, JIAN, Yu-Chang, TSUI, Yi-Fen
• Granted Patent: US 11,151,565 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/44
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2115 Third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2220/00 Business processing using cryptography postage metering system using cryptography G06Q2250/05
• 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: H04L 9/50 using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/71 Hardware identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/72 Subscriber identity

Abstract

Disclosed are a real and virtual identity verification circuit, a system thereof and an electronic transaction method. The circuit is capable of being built in or connected with an electronic device to allow a user to carry out electronic identity verification with his or her unique biological characteristic on a remote server. The real and virtual identity verification circuit comprises a memory unit, an acquisition unit, a processing unit and a communication unit. A verification key code is stored by the memory unit. The acquisition unit acquires the biological characteristic and generates a corresponding biological characteristic code. The processing unit processes the verification key code and the biological characteristic code according to a deal process to generate a corresponding unverified code, and the communication unit transmits the unverified code to the server and awaits a verification result of the electronic identity verification.

Claims

1. A real and virtual identity verification circuit capable of being built in or connected with an electronic device to allow a user to carry out electronic identity verification with his or her unique biological characteristic on an Internet-based server storing data associated with the biological characteristic, the real and virtual identity verification circuit comprising:

a memory unit having a storage space for storing a verification key code;

an acquisition unit for acquiring the biological characteristic and generating a biological characteristic code corresponding to the biological characteristic;

a processing unit connected with the memory unit and the acquisition unit and provided with a deal process, the processing unit processing the verification key code and the biological characteristic code according to the deal process to generate a corresponding unverified code; and

a communication unit connected with the processing unit, transmitting the unverified code to the Internet, and receiving a verification result of the electronic identity verification associated with the unverified code from the server.

2. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 1, wherein the memory unit is adapted for pre-storing the verification key code associated with the biological characteristic.

3. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 2, wherein the processing unit compares the biological characteristic code with the verification key code according to the deal process to determine whether to generate the unverified code.

4. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 1, wherein the verification key code in the memory unit is associated with the electronic device such that the processing unit encodes the biological characteristic code and the verification key code according to the deal process to generate the unverified code corresponding to the biological characteristic code and the verification key code.

5. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 4, wherein the verification key code is derived from at least one of a media access control address, a subscriber identity module and a password set by the user of the electronic device.

6. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 1, wherein the communication unit is connected with the memory unit such that the communication unit receives a variable key code for storage in the memory unit to form the verification key code in the memory unit.

7. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 6, wherein the processing unit encodes the biological characteristic code and the verification key code according to the deal process to generate the unverified code containing the biological characteristic code and the verification key code.

8. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 1, wherein the processing unit directly stores the biological characteristic code generated by the acquisition unit in the memory unit to form the verification key code.

9. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 8, wherein the processing unit selects one of the biological characteristic code and the verification key code according to the deal process to generate the unverified code.

10. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 1, wherein the biological characteristic is at least one of a fingerprint, an iris pattern, a palm print, a vein pattern, a sound pattern and a facial pattern.

11. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 1, wherein the communication unit transmits the unverified code via wired or wireless communication.

12. The real and virtual identity verification circuit of claim 1, wherein the communication unit is in compliance with a communication protocol of BLUETOOTH, fixed network communication, mobile communication, or WI-FI.

13. A real and virtual identity verification system enabling a user to carry out electronic identity verification with his or her unique biological characteristic, comprising:

an electronic device comprising;

a memory unit having a storage space for storing a verification key code;

an acquisition unit for acquiring the biological characteristic and generating a biological characteristic code corresponding to the biological characteristic;

a processing unit connected with the memory unit and the acquisition unit and provided with a deal process, the processing unit processing the verification key code and the biological characteristic code according to the deal process to generate a corresponding unverified code; and

a communication unit connected with the processing unit and transmitting the unverified code to the Internet; and

a server comprising

a database unit for storing the biological characteristic of the user;

a transceiving unit for receiving the unverified code;

a verification unit connected with the database unit and the transceiving unit and verifying the biological characteristic and the unverified code to generate a verification result; and

a feedback unit connected with the verification unit and sending the verification result to the electronic device via the transceiving unit to achieve verification of the user'"'"'s identity.

14. The real and virtual identity verification system of claim 13, wherein the transceiving unit is in compliance with a communication protocol of BLUETOOTH, fixed network communication, mobile communication, or WI-FI.

15. The real and virtual identity verification system of claim 13, wherein the biological characteristic stored in the database unit is at least one of a fingerprint, an iris pattern, a palm print, a vein pattern, a sound pattern and a facial pattern.

16. An electronic transaction method enabling a user to carry out an electronic transaction on at least one transaction sub-server connected with a transaction server containing an indicated link path of the transaction sub-server after the user obtains a verification result of electronic identity verification performed by a real and virtual identity verification system including an electronic device and a server with the use of a biological characteristic, the method comprising:

connecting the electronic device to the transaction server to select the indicated link path of the transaction sub-server at the transaction server; and

using the electronic device to receive the verification result such that the transaction server selectively allows the user to carry out the electronic transaction,

wherein the user is selectively enabled to carry out the electronic transaction on the transaction sub-server directly via the transaction server according to the verification result and the indicated link path.

17. The electronic transaction method of claim 16, further comprising enabling the transaction server to provide the electronic device with the geographical location of the transaction sub-server in proximity to the electronic device according to one of the geographical location of the electronic device and information related to the user.

18. The electronic transaction method of claim 16, wherein the electronic transaction is related to electronic lottery, the transaction server is a financial platform, and the transaction sub-server is a lottery vending machine.

19. The electronic transaction method of claim 18, further comprising, after completion of the electronic transaction of electronic lottery, using the lottery vending machine to produce a paper-based lottery ticket bearing lottery information according to the electronic transaction.

20. The electronic transaction method of claim 19, further comprising transmitting the lottery information of the paper-based lottery ticket to the electronic device to solely allow the user with the biological characteristic to virtually possess the paper-based lottery ticket.

21. The electronic transaction method of claim 19, further comprising preserving the paper-based lottery ticket and associating the biological characteristic with the paper-based lottery ticket to solely allow the user with the biological characteristic to acquire the paper-based lottery ticket.

22. The electronic transaction method of claim 20, further comprising allowing the user to retrieve the paper-based lottery ticket from the lottery vending machine with the biological characteristic.