Sensor-Based Credential Validation for Secure App Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing authentication methods for accessing sensitive information can be cumbersome and inefficient, requiring tedious processes that compromise user experience while ensuring security.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that utilize various sensors to sense and validate credentials from authentication carriers, such as images, audio messages, NFC signals, or movement, to grant access to applications based on successful authentication, allowing for a non-cumbersome and reliable authentication process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional authentication methods (PIN, password, security questions) are used, then security protection is provided, but the authentication process becomes cumbersome and tedious for users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual authentication methods (typing PINs, answering security questions) with automated sensor-based credential verification. Sensors automatically detect and validate credentials from authentication carriers such as NFC tags, RFID cards, or biometric devices, eliminating the need for users to manually input authentication information while maintaining security through automated validation processes
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication system performs self-validation through sensors that automatically detect, read, and verify credentials from authentication carriers without requiring user intervention. The system independently completes the authentication process by sensing the carrier, extracting credential data, validating it against stored credentials, and granting access automatically, making the process both secure and convenient
2Reliability
If multiple authentication methods are implemented to enhance security, then reliability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal authentication framework where a single sensor-based system can handle multiple types of authentication carriers (NFC tags, RFID cards, biometric devices, printed credentials) through one unified validation process. This multi-functional approach allows the system to support various authentication methods without requiring separate hardware or software modules for each method, thereby maintaining security while controlling complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The sensor acts as an intermediary component that mediates between diverse authentication carriers and the credential validation system. Rather than implementing multiple specialized components for different authentication types, the sensor serves as a universal interface that can detect and transmit data from various carrier types, simplifying the overall system architecture while maintaining support for multiple authentication methods
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AI summary
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for receiving a request from a user for access to at least one function associated with a first application; determining that access to at least one function requires user authentication; initiating sensing of an authentication validating carrier comprising a first credential; determining the first credential based at least in part on the sensed authentication validating carrier; validating the first credential, thereby resulting in a first successful user authentication; and granting access to at least one function associated with the first application based on the validation of the first successful user authentication.