Automated Biometric Identity Verification for Digital Passport Renewals

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current identity verification systems for digital passport renewals are inefficient and cumbersome due to the need for extensive manual processing and limited availability of biometric data, leading to slow authentication and potential human errors.

Innovation Solution

An identity verification computing device and method that receives encrypted biometric data from user devices, retrieves trusted biometric data from external databases, generates verification scores, and transmits updated renewal packages to sponsoring authorities, leveraging biometric data from digital wallet services to streamline the authentication process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual processing is used for identity verification, then security review requirements are met, but processing time increases and efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity reviewVSAvoidprocessing efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The identity verification process is segmented into multiple independent components: biometric data collection, biometric template generation, encrypted data transmission, and verification score calculation. This segmentation allows parallel processing of different verification tasks, improving overall processing efficiency while maintaining security standards through systematic review at each stage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

An intermediary verification system is introduced that acts as a bridge between the applicant and the sponsoring authority. This intermediary automatically processes biometric data, generates verification scores, and pre-screens applications, reducing the manual processing burden while maintaining security review requirements through automated authentication protocols.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If extensive manual processing is performed, then verification accuracy is maintained, but human errors may occur and processing becomes cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveverification accuracyVSAvoidoperational simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service functionality where the verification process automatically collects, processes, and validates biometric data without requiring manual intervention. The automated generation of verification scores and the systematic comparison against trusted biometric data eliminate human errors while maintaining verification accuracy through consistent, rule-based processing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Manual mechanical processing is replaced with automated electronic systems that collect, transmit, and analyze biometric data. The system uses automated authentication algorithms and encrypted data transmission protocols to maintain verification accuracy while eliminating the cumbersome nature of manual processing and reducing human error potential.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Reliability

If biometric data is collected and processed, then authentication capability is improved, but data security requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication capabilityVSAvoiddata security infrastructure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Biometric data is encrypted and secured before transmission using pre-established security protocols. The system performs preliminary authentication checks and generates secure verification scores in advance, reducing the need for complex real-time security infrastructure during the actual verification process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms biometric data into verification scores through standardized parameter changes and mathematical transformations. This parameter transformation simplifies data handling and reduces security complexity by converting complex biometric information into comparable score values that can be verified using established authentication algorithms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11528143B2Biometric identity verification systems, methods and programs for identity document applications and renewals

Publication Date: 2022.12.13 MASTERCARD INT INC

AI summary

An automated identity verification computing device, system and method receives an encrypted renewal request from a user computing device including a biometric value, a digital passport object identifier, and request data. The computing device, system and method retrieves trusted biometric data based on the digital passport object identifier from an identity database, determine a verification score based on the trusted biometric data and the biometric value, and generates a renewal package including the verification score, the digital passport object identifier, and the request data. The computing device, system and method transmit the renewal package to a sponsoring authority computing device.