Seamless Access Authentication Using Local Biometric Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing authentication methods lack verification of the legitimate ownership of credentials and often compromise data security and usability.
Innovation Solution
An authentication method that uses biometric identification data recorded by an authentication device and sent to a mobile device for verification, ensuring seamless access without requiring user interaction, while maintaining data privacy through encryption and local template storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multi-factor authentication is implemented to verify legitimate ownership, then security is improved, but usability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses the user's own biometric data stored locally on their mobile device to perform self-verification. The authentication device captures biometric data, sends it to the user's mobile device for comparison against stored templates, and the device itself determines authentication validity without requiring manual intervention or additional credentials from the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual authentication actions (entering PINs, presenting physical credentials) with automatic biometric recognition. The system captures biometric data through sensors and automatically processes authentication through digital comparison, eliminating the need for mechanical user actions while maintaining security.
2Reliability
If personal data is collected for verification purposes, then authentication legitimacy is improved, but data protection deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the necessary biometric data from the user and processes it locally on the user's own mobile device rather than storing it on remote servers. The biometric template is stored exclusively on the user's device, and only authentication results are transmitted back, minimizing data exposure and keeping sensitive information under user control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements local processing and storage of biometric data on the user's mobile device rather than centralized storage. Each user's biometric template is stored locally on their own device with encryption, creating distributed data storage that enhances security by eliminating single points of failure and reducing the attack surface for data breaches.
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AI summary
An authentication method, in particular an access control method, for trusted seamless authentication, preferably for granting trusted seamless access to an asset, including the following steps: obtaining, by an authentication device, position data of at least one mobile device, the position data of the at least one mobile device being indicative for the position of the at least one mobile device relative to the authentication device; determining one of the at least one mobile device which is within a recording zone; recording, by the authentication device, biometric identification data of a carrier person of the determined mobile device; sending, by the authentication device, the recorded biometric identification data to the determined mobile device; receiving, in response to sending the recorded identification data, by the authentication device, authentication confirmation data and/or credential data from the determined mobile device.