Voice-Based Identity Verification on Mobile Terminals

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Solution Overview

Problem

The conventional user verification method based on user accounts and passwords is inadequate for mobile devices due to difficulties in inputting credentials on touch screens and insufficient security against trojan viruses, leading to low security and user experience degradation.

Innovation Solution

An identity verifying method using voice information for user authentication, where a mobile terminal plays stored voice information, collects voice data, and sends it to a server for verification, eliminating the need for manual input and enhancing security.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional user verification based on account and password is used, then user account verification can be performed, but user operation becomes complex and security is insufficient on mobile devices

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecurityVSAvoiduser operation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical input method (typing password on touchscreen) with voice-based authentication. The voice receiving means captures the user's spoken password, converting acoustic signals into verification data, thereby eliminating the need for manual input while maintaining security and improving ease of operation on mobile devices

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces voice information as an intermediary between the user and the verification system. Instead of direct input through the touchscreen interface, the user's voice serves as a mediator that carries the authentication data to the voice receiving means, simplifying the interaction while enhancing security through biometric verification

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If touch screen input is used for password entry, then user verification can be performed, but user experience degrades due to input difficulty

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinput convenienceVSAvoidverification time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent substitutes the time-consuming mechanical action of typing each character of the password with a single voice command. The voice receiving means captures the entire password in one continuous speech input, dramatically reducing the time required for verification while significantly improving input convenience on mobile devices

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Reliability

If conventional password verification is used, then account authentication can be performed, but security protection against trojan viruses is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity protectionVSAvoidverification system
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces voice information as an intermediary layer between the user and the verification system. This intermediary captures biometric data that is difficult for trojan viruses to intercept or replicate, thereby enhancing security protection while adding minimal complexity to the verification system through the integration of voice receiving means

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9351165B2Identity verifying method, account acquiring method, and mobile terminal
Publication Date: 2016.05.24 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

An identity verifying method, an account acquiring method, a mobile terminal, and a storage medium are disclosed, and the account acquiring method includes: receiving, by a first mobile terminal, a user operation of accepting identity verification on the first mobile terminal, playing voice information which is stored in the first mobile terminal and has a correspondence relationship with a user account of a user of the first mobile terminal, and meanwhile collecting voice data of the played voice information using voice receiving means; sending, by the first mobile terminal, verification information comprising the user account and the voice data to a server to allow the server to determine whether the user passes the identity verification according to the verification information; and receiving, by the first mobile terminal, an identity verification result returned by the server. Thus, the voice information is used for identity verification.