Haptic Input Means for Seamless Biometric Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for user authentication on mobile devices, such as passwords and biometric methods, are impractical and insecure, especially on miniaturized devices, and often require additional steps or sensors, leading to uncertainty and inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A method that uses haptic input means with integrated fingerprint readers to record and authenticate users while navigating through a server's menu system, allowing access to secure areas without explicit authentication requests, and is compatible with devices lacking built-in fingerprint readers, using a comparator to verify fingerprints and grant access based on recorded data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If biometric identification methods (fingerprint sensors) are used for authentication, then security is improved, but device complexity increases and integration becomes difficult on miniaturized devices
Solution Approach 1:
The haptic input means is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as both a navigation control mechanism and a fingerprint sensing interface. The same physical component that detects user interactions for menu navigation also captures fingerprint data, eliminating the need for a separate dedicated fingerprint sensor and reducing device complexity while maintaining security
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the fingerprint sensing function with the existing haptic input means into a single integrated component. This merging of functions allows the system to perform both navigation control and biometric authentication using one element, thereby simplifying device architecture and making integration feasible on miniaturized devices
2Reliability
If explicit authentication steps are required for accessing secure data, then security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to additional user steps
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs fingerprint capture and authentication in advance during the normal navigation interaction, before the user actually requests access to secure data. By the time the user needs to access protected content, the authentication is already completed, making the process seamless and convenient while maintaining security requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically performs authentication without requiring explicit user action. The fingerprint data is captured passively during navigation, and the system autonomously verifies the user's identity and grants access permissions, eliminating the need for separate authentication steps while maintaining security
3Speed
If fingerprint recognition is performed with single reading, then speed is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates due to uncertainty in recognition accuracy
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of performing a single discrete fingerprint reading, the system continuously captures fingerprint data throughout the entire navigation interaction. Multiple fingerprint impressions are collected over time as the user interacts with the interface, and these continuous readings are aggregated to improve recognition accuracy while maintaining fast authentication speed
4Ease of operation
If passwords are made too simple, then ease of operation is improved, but security deteriorates due to ease of guessing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical/password-based authentication system with a biometric sensing system. Instead of requiring users to remember and enter complex passwords, the system uses automatic fingerprint recognition, which is both simple for the user (no memorization required) and secure (difficult to replicate or guess)
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for identifying and/or authenticating a user of a mobile device in a server on the basis of fingerprints of the user that have been read through haptic input means of the mobile device with a fingerprint reader in the mobile device.