Multi-User Biometric Authentication System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Ensuring the authenticity of transactions, particularly in healthcare contexts, where verifying the accuracy of providers, patients, and healthcare data is challenging, necessitating a reliable and secure authentication method.

Innovation Solution

A method involving simultaneous biometric input from multiple users, capturing and processing biometric data, context data, and generating a transaction authentication record to confirm transaction authenticity, using a computing entity that displays transaction data and confirms biometric input capture.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple biometric inputs are used for transaction authentication, then transaction authentication reliability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetransaction authentication reliabilityVSAvoidauthentication system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple biometric authentication factors (fingerprint, facial recognition, voice recognition) into a single integrated authentication system. The computing entity consolidates the capture, processing, and verification of different biometric modalities into one unified platform, reducing the need for separate authentication devices while maintaining enhanced security through multi-factor verification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The authentication computing entity is designed as a universal system that can handle multiple types of biometric inputs through a single interface. The system provides multi-functional capabilities by supporting various authentication methods (fingerprints, facial features, voice patterns) within one device, eliminating the need for multiple specialized authentication tools and simplifying the overall system architecture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If simultaneous biometric capture from multiple users is implemented, then transaction authenticity is improved, but capture time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetransaction authenticityVSAvoidauthentication capture time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring authentication parameters, pre-loading biometric templates, and establishing authentication protocols before the actual transaction occurs. This preparation enables the system to execute simultaneous multi-user biometric capture efficiently without requiring real-time computation or complex decision-making during the authentication moment, thereby reducing capture time while maintaining authenticity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The authentication system maintains continuous operational readiness by keeping biometric sensors active, maintaining constant communication channels with users, and continuously validating authentication status. This continuous action approach ensures that multiple users can provide biometric inputs simultaneously without interruption or delay, as the system is already in a state prepared to receive and process authentication data without requiring additional setup time.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS11756038B2Transaction authentication using multiple biometric inputs

Publication Date: 2023.09.12 OPTUM INC

AI summary

Example embodiments relate to transaction authentication using biometric inputs from multiple users. The biometric inputs are input via a single computing entity simultaneously or within a configurable time period. The biometric inputs can be used to generate a transaction authentication record to authenticate the transaction.