Secure profile setting in a shared device

• US 8,395,478 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2006
• Issued: 03/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Diab, Wael W., Issa, Mohammad
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehmood, Jennifer
• Assistant Examiner(s): POINT, RUFUS C
• Application Number:
  US11/590,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20080100414A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,325 Days
• Field of Search: 340/10.1, 340/10.2, 340/10.3, 340/10.4, 340/10.41, 340/10.42, 340/5.52, 340/5.1, 340/5.53, 340/5.8, 340/5.83, 340/5.84, 340/5.85, 340/825.37, 340/13.26, 340/5.81, 4554561-4563, 379/90.01, 379/91.02, 379/88.17
• US Class Current: 340/5.81
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 1/01 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2115 Third party
• 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 12/08 Access security

Abstract

There is provided a system for secure profile setting that includes at least one shared device and an RFID reader module embedded in the at least one shared device. The system further includes a database that is in communication with the at least one shared device. In the system, an RFID transponder module associated with a user transmits a signal that enables the at least one shared device to identify the user. The RFID transponder module can include a fingerprint scanner module, which can be used to acquire a user'"'"'s fingerprint data to authenticate the user. Thus, after identifying the user, the at least one shared device retrieves a profile corresponding to the user from the database and sets the profile.

Claims

1. A system for secure profile setting, said system comprising:

at least one shared Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone;

an RFID reader module embedded in said at least one shared VoIP telephone;

a database in communication with said at least one shared VoIP telephone;

an RFID transponder module, wherein said RFID transponder module is associated with a user of said at least one shared VoIP telephone using said user'"'"'s biometric data stored in said RFID transponder module, and is configured to transmit a signal to said RFID reader module;

wherein said at least one shared VoIP telephone is configured to identify said user in response to said RFID reader module receiving said signal, wherein said at least one shared VoIP telephone is further configured to retrieve a profile corresponding to said user, in response to being identified by said at least one shared VoIP telephone, from said database, and wherein said at least one shared VoIP telephone is further configured to set said profile, wherein said profile includes personalized settings of said at least one shared VoIP telephone by said user.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said RFID transponder module is configured to acquire biometric data, including fingerprint data from said user and to transmit said signal if said fingerprint data matches a fingerprint template of said user'"'"'s biometric data stored in said RFID transponder module.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said RFID transponder module is configured to acquire biometric data, including fingerprint data from said user and to include said fingerprint data and a fingerprint template stored in said RFID transponder module in said signal.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said at least one shared VoIP telephone identifies said user by matching a voice template of said user'"'"'s biometric data stored in said transponder to a voice of said user.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said RFID transponder module includes a fingerprint scanner.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein said personalized settings of said at least one shared VoIP telephone by said user includes a volume setting of said at least one shared VoIP telephone.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein said at least one shared VoIP telephone is a cellular telephone.

8. A method for secure profile setting of at least one shared Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone, said at least one shared VoIP telephone having an embedded RFID reader module and being in communication with a database, said method comprising:

receiving, by said at least one shared VoIP telephone, a signal from an RFID transponder module associated with a user of said at least one shared VoIP telephone using said user'"'"'s biometric data stored in said RFID transponder module;

identifying said user using said signal in response to said receiving said signal;

retrieving a profile of said user from said database by said at least one VoIP telephone in response to identifying said user;

setting said profile in said at least one shared VoIP telephone, wherein said profile includes personalized settings of said at least one shared VoIP telephone by said user.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said RFID transponder module is configured to acquire biometric data, including fingerprint data, from said user and to include said fingerprint data and a fingerprint template of said user'"'"'s biometric data stored in said RFID transponder module in said signal.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein said RFID transponder module is configured to acquire biometric data, including fingerprint data, from said user, said method further comprises matching said fingerprint data to a fingerprint template stored in said RFID transponder module.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein said transmitting is performed if said fingerprint data matches said finger print template.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein said at least one shared VoIP telephone identifies said user by matching a voice template of said user'"'"'s biometric data stored in said RFID transponder module to a voice sample of said user.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein said personalized settings of said at least one shared VoIP telephone by said user includes a volume setting of said at least one shared VoIP telephone.

14. The method of claim 8 wherein said at least one shared VoIP telephone is a cellular telephone.