Push Notification Biometric Authentication Without App Unlocking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing user authentication methods, particularly biometric authentication, are inconvenient and resource-intensive, requiring users to interact with mobile applications, which can burden processing, memory, and battery resources.

Innovation Solution

Implementing biometric authentication directly from a push notification on a mobile device, allowing users to authorize transactions without unlocking or interacting with the mobile application, using tactile or verbal inputs for fingerprint or voice recognition.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If biometric authentication is implemented through mobile application interaction, then user authentication security is improved, but device resource consumption (processing, memory, battery) increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication securityVSAvoidbattery consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the biometric authentication capability from the mobile application environment and implements it directly at the operating system level through push notifications. This allows authentication to occur without launching or interacting with the mobile application, thereby maintaining security while reducing the computational resources and battery power required.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs biometric authentication in advance through a push notification before the user needs to access the mobile application. By pre-authenticating the user via fingerprint or other biometric methods, the system eliminates the need for subsequent resource-intensive application loading and authentication processes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If biometric authentication requires mobile application interaction, then authentication accuracy is improved, but user convenience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication accuracyVSAvoiduser convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces the operating system's push notification system as an intermediary between the user and the mobile application. This intermediary enables biometric authentication to occur through a simple notification interface, maintaining authentication accuracy while significantly improving user convenience by eliminating the need to navigate through application interfaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If traditional authentication workflow is used, then authentication reliability is improved, but processing time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication reliabilityVSAvoidauthentication time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the authentication process into a separate, standalone operation that occurs through the push notification system independent of the mobile application. This segmentation allows authentication to be performed quickly and reliably without the overhead of application loading, interface navigation, and associated processing delays.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12380451B1Biometric authentication on push notification

Publication Date: 2025.08.05 UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)

AI summary

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting push notification data to a computing device, the push notification data being processable by the computing device to display a push notification, receiving biometric data, the biometric data being provided from user input responsive to the push notification, determining that a user providing the user input is authenticated at least partially based on the biometric data, and inducing execution of a transaction in response to determining that the user is authenticated.