Telematics-Based Authentication Using Driving Behavior Challenges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current authentication methods, such as username and password combinations, are inadequate as they often result in compromised accounts due to the reuse of passwords across multiple platforms, leading to unauthorized access.
Innovation Solution
A telematics-based authentication system that utilizes data from a vehicle's telematics device and mobile device to generate challenge questions based on the user's driving habits, location, and other telematics data, requiring users to answer these questions to authenticate and access computing resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional username and password authentication is used, then the authentication process is simple and easy to operate, but security is compromised due to password reuse across multiple accounts
Solution Approach 1:
The system collects and stores telematics data (driving patterns, location history, vehicle usage) in advance during normal vehicle operation. This preliminary data collection enables the generation of personalized challenge questions that are specific to each user's driving behavior, making the authentication process secure without requiring complex passwords at the moment of authentication
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces telematics data as an intermediary element between the user and the authentication system. Instead of directly using passwords, the system uses telematics-derived challenge questions as a mediator to verify user identity. This intermediary approach transforms static password authentication into dynamic behavior-based authentication, enhancing security while maintaining user-friendly interaction
2Ease of operation
If password reuse is common practice, then ease of account management is improved, but vulnerability to unauthorized access increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by making each user's authentication challenges unique and personalized based on their individual telematics data. Instead of using universal passwords that users reuse across accounts, each user receives challenge questions tailored to their specific driving patterns, location history, and vehicle usage. This localization of authentication credentials eliminates the need for password reuse while maintaining ease of operation for legitimate users
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AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for authenticating a user requesting access to a computing resource based on telematics data. A system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle having one or more sensors arranged therein, a mobile device, and a server computer. The server computer may receive telematics data of a user associated with the vehicle from the telematics device, store the telematics data in memory, receive a request to authenticate the user, generate one or more questions for authenticating the user based on the telematics data, transmit the one or more questions for presentation to the user, receive one or more answers to the one or more questions from the mobile device, and transmit, to the mobile device, an indication of whether the user is authenticated based on the one or more answers.