Wearable Terminal Authentication via Location Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing authentication methods for shared electronic equipment, such as copying machines or MFPs, face challenges in ensuring secure user authentication without relying on PIN codes, passwords, or biometric recognition, particularly when using mobile terminals, as they may not adequately verify the rightful owner.
Innovation Solution
An authentication apparatus that utilizes a wearable terminal's unique identification information and wearing location, registered in the authentication information, to perform user authentication by communicating with the terminal via multiple antennas and identifying the wearing location based on communication intensity, ensuring that the terminal and location match the registered data for successful authentication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If mobile terminal unique identification information is used for authentication, then convenience of user authentication is improved, but security against unauthorized access deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a spatial dimension to authentication by incorporating wearing location information. Instead of relying solely on terminal identification, the system now verifies both the terminal ID and the physical location where the terminal is worn, creating a two-dimensional authentication space that significantly enhances security while maintaining convenience
2Reliability
If biometric recognition or PIN codes are required for authentication, then security is improved, but device complexity and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system leverages the user's own body and habitual wearing behavior as the authentication mechanism. The wearable terminal naturally indicates the user's presence and identity through its wearing location, eliminating the need for separate biometric scanners or PIN entry interfaces, thus achieving high security with minimal added complexity
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AI summary
Provided is an authentication apparatus that performs user authentication, using a wearable terminal (100) worn by a user, whereby allowing a high security to be achieved. It includes a storage part (9) that stores a piece of authentication information (91) in which a piece of terminal information that identifies the wearable terminal (100) worn by the user is registered, a communication part (10) that makes communication with the wearable terminal (100) worn by the user to acquire a piece of terminal information, and an authenticating part (72) that performs user authentication in the case where the same piece of terminal information as that registered in the authentication information (91) has been acquired by the communication part (10).