Biometric Authentication Server for Service Provider Identity Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need to prevent deceitful individuals from impersonating service providers in services like taxi, delivery, and car sharing by ensuring authentic identification of service providers before meeting customers at predetermined locations.

Innovation Solution

A system that includes a server and terminal apparatuses for service providers and customers, which perform biometric authentication of service providers en route to appointment locations, transmitting authentication results to customers to verify the authenticity of the service provider.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If biometric authentication is performed repeatedly on service providers en route to appointment locations, then reliability of service provider identification is improved, but device complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice provider identification reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs biometric authentication of the service provider before the service provider reaches the appointment location. This preliminary authentication action ensures that the customer can verify the service provider's identity in advance, reducing the risk of impersonation. The server receives biometric information from the service provider's terminal, performs authentication, and notifies the customer of the authentication result before the meeting takes place.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary between the service provider's terminal and the customer's terminal. It receives biometric information from the service provider, performs authentication processing, and transmits the authentication result to the customer. This intermediary role simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing the authentication logic and reducing direct complexity between service provider and customer terminals.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If biometric authentication is performed repeatedly on service providers en route to appointment locations, then reliability of service provider identification is improved, but loss of time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveservice provider identification reliabilityVSAvoidauthentication processing time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The biometric authentication is performed in advance during the service provider's travel to the appointment location, rather than at the moment of meeting. This timing allows the authentication process to occur without delaying the actual service delivery, as the customer receives notification of the authentication result before the service provider arrives.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables continuous monitoring and authentication of the service provider during transit to the appointment location. By repeatedly acquiring biometric information and performing authentication checks during the journey, the system maintains continuous verification without interrupting the service provider's travel or the customer's schedule.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Measurement precision

If biometric information is repeatedly acquired from service providers, then measurement precision of authentication is improved, but use of energy increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication accuracyVSAvoidenergy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs biometric authentication at periodic intervals during the service provider's travel to the appointment location, rather than continuously. The server repeatedly acquires biometric information at predetermined time intervals, performs authentication checks, and stops when the service provider reaches the appointment location or a predetermined number of authentication cycles are completed. This periodic approach balances authentication accuracy with energy efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS11775972B2Server, processing apparatus, and processing method

Publication Date: 2023.10.03 NEC CORP

AI summary

The present invention provides a server (10) including an authentication result acquisition unit (11) that acquires a result of biometric authentication of a service provider based on biometric information repeatedly acquired from the service provider heading toward an appointment location for a customer, and a result transmission unit (12) that transmits the result of the biometric authentication of the service provider to a terminal of the customer.