Methods and systems for enhancing the accuracy performance of authentication systems

• US 9,363,265 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2014
• Issued: 06/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Corporation DAON Technology
• Original Assignee: Daon Holdings Limited
• Inventors: White, Conor Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh, Minh
• Application Number:
  US14/467,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20140366107A1
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/24 the user being prompted to utter a password or a predefined phrase
• 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 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/065 Continuous authentication

Abstract

A method for enhancing the accuracy performance of authentication systems includes determining an authentication data requirement for a desired transaction and at least one new verification phrase. The method also includes capturing authentication data from a user with a communications device in accordance with the authentication data requirement, and capturing biometric data of the at least one new verification phrase from the user with the communications device. Moreover, the method includes adding the determined at least one new verification phrase to an enrollment phrase registry and storing the biometric data captured for the at least one new verification phrase in an enrollment data record of the user after successfully authenticating the user.

Claims

1. A method for enhancing the accuracy of authentication transaction results comprising:

capturing authentication data from a user during an authentication transaction;

after successfully authenticating the user with the captured authentication data, determining, by a processor, a verification phrase;

capturing biometric data from the user for the verification phrase;

storing the captured biometric data in a user enrollment data record;

determining a number of captured biometric data samples stored in the user enrollment data record for the verification phase; and

adding the verification phrase to an enrollment phrase registry when the number equals a desired number.

2. A method in accordance with claim 1, said capturing biometric data step further comprising determining, by the processor, whether the captured biometric data corresponds to the verification phrase.

3. A method for enhancing the accuracy of authentication transaction results comprising:

conducting different authentication transactions with authentication data captured from a user, the authentication data captured for each authentication transaction being in accordance with an authentication data requirement for a transaction desired to be conducted by the user;

after each authentication transaction in which the user is successfully authenticated, determining, by a processor, a new verification phrase;

capturing biometric data for the new verification phrase from the user; and

determining, by the processor, whether the captured biometric data corresponds to the new verification phrase.

4. A method in accordance with claim 3 further comprising:

after determining that the captured biometric data corresponds to the new verification phrase, adding, by the processor, the new verification phrase to an enrollment phrase registry; and

storing the captured biometric data in a user enrollment data record.

5. A method in accordance with claim 3, further comprising adding, by the processor, the new verification phrase to an enrollment phrase registry after the user is successfully authenticated.

6. A computing device for enhancing the accuracy of authentication transaction results comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to store an enrollment phrase registry, said computing device being associated with a network and said memory being in communication with said processor and having instructions stored therein which, when executed by said processor cause said processor to;

authenticate a user with authentication data captured from the user during an authentication transaction;

after successfully authenticating the user with the captured authentication data, determine a verification phrase;

store biometric data captured from the user for the verification phrase in a user enrollment data record;

determined a number of captured biometric data samples stored in the user enrollment data record for the verification phrase; and

add the verification phrase to an enrollment phrase registry when the number equals a desired number.

7. A computing device in accordance with claim 6, wherein the instructions when executed by said processor further cause said processor to determine whether the captured biometric data corresponds to the verification phrase.

8. A computing device in accordance with claim 6, wherein the instructions when executed by said processor further cause said processor to determine that a user is an imposter when the user is not successfully authenticated.

9. A computing device in accordance with claim 6, wherein the instructions when executed by said processor further cause said programmed to determine the authentication data to be captured by randomly selecting phrases included in the enrollment phrase registry that have corresponding biometric data stored in the user enrollment data record.

10. A computing device for enhancing the accuracy of authentication transaction results comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to store an enrollment phrase registry, said computing device being associated with a network and said memory being in communication with said processor and having instructions stored therein which, then executed by said processor cause said processor to;

conduct different authentication transactions with authentication data captured from a user, the authentication data captured for each authentication transaction being in accordance with an authentication data requirement for a transaction desired to be conducted by the user;

after each authentication transaction in which the user is successfully authenticated, determine a new verification phrase; and

determine whether biometric data captured from the user for the new verification phrase corresponds to the new verification phrase.

11. A computing device for enhancing the accuracy of authentication transaction results in accordance with claim 10, wherein the instructions which when read by said processor cause said processor to:

add the new verification phrase to an enrollment phrase registry after determining that the captured biometric data corresponds to the new verification phrase; and

store the captured biometric data in a user enrollment data record.

12. A computing device for enhancing the accuracy of authentication transaction results in accordance with claim 10, wherein the instructions which when read by said processor cause said processor to add the new verification phrase to an enrollment phrase registry after the user is successfully authenticated.

13. A computer program recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium included in a computing device for enhancing the accuracy of authentication transaction results, the computer program being comprised of instructions, which when read and executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to:

determine a verification phrase after successfully authenticating the user with captured authentication data, the authentication data being captured from a user during an authentication transaction;

store captured biometric data in a user enrollment data record, the biometric data being captured from the user for the verification phrase;

determine a number of captured biometric data samples stored in the user enrollment data record for the verification phrase; and

add the verification phrase to an enrollment phrase registry when the number equals a desired number.