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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190908 | Secure data verification via biometric input An architecture is presented that controls access to secure data via biometric verification. The system comprises a memory module that communicates with biometric data to establish a heightened level of security for controlling access to data stored in the non-volat... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190907 | Process and apparatus for automatically identifying user of consumer electronics Consumer devices and methods for operating consumer devices are disclosed. A consumer electronic device may include user identification unit incorporated into a control module of the device. A user of a consumer electronics device is uniquely identified using a metr... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185747 | Methods of registration for programs using verification processes with biometrics for fraud management and enhanced security protection Methods for pre-registering a participant in a program database using a participant smart card and biometric data in a verification process to manage fraud and enhance security and privacy protection are disclosed. The methods include pre-registering, or alternative... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181032 | Method and apparatus with chipset-based protection for local and remote authentication of booting from peripheral devices Method and apparatus enabling a computing system to deter or thwart unauthorized boot-up from peripheral devices are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a monitoring module and a managing module are employed cooperating with each other to authorize users in bo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8181031 | Biometric authentication device and system A biometric sensor device, a portable electronic device including an actuatable biometric input device, and method of biometric authentication that includes an input device that generates a signal or completes a circuit when actuated, and a biometric reader that rea... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171304 | Method, system and computer program product for multiple biometric template screening A method, system and computer program product which allows identification of an enrollment biometric template having a highest probability of matching a sample biometric template from a plurality of enrolled biometric templates without compromising or significantly ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171305 | Method for authorizing a telephone transaction and local node The invention relates to a method for authorizing a telephone transaction and in particular an access to a database through a user in a telecommunication network, said telecommunication network comprising a user interface, an access control for the database and an a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161291 | Process and arrangement for authenticating a user of facilities, a service, a database or a data network A process for authenticating a user to control remote access to a service, data base or data network is provided, in which during an enrollment step, an initial voice sample provided by the user is analyzed to obtain an initial user-specific voice profile and, in a ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161290 | Security for a personal communication device Security is provided to a communication device configured to accept a physical key device. A public mode of operation is activated for the communication device when the physical key is not accepted by the personal communication device. The public mode of operation a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161289 | Voice controlled portable memory storage device Method for a portable memory storage device is provided. The method includes, enrolling the device after the device interfaces with a host system and an application is launched that requests a user to provide voice input; receiving the user voice input and storing t... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8145916 | Finger sensing apparatus using encrypted user template and associated methods A finger sensing apparatus may include an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, and encryption circuitry on the IC substrate cooperating with the array of finger sensing elements for encrypting a user template co... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145915 | System and method for platform-independent biometrically secure information transfer and access control The inventive data processing system and method enable verifiable secure transfer of information between two or more parties, each having access to at least one identity verification system utilizing a platform-independent architecture to enable verification of iden... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140856 | Method and apparatus for removing encrypted files unassociated with a user key from an archive The present invention provides a computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product to selectively extracts compressed-encrypted files from an archive. The data processing system receives a command to preprocess the archive from an aut... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135956 | Systems and methods for lightweight authentication Techniques are provided for the lightweight authentication of a user to an application, a computer or other device. An interaction element such as a stylus, a pen or marker is uniquely identified. The interactive element is associated with a user. The interaction el... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135957 | Access control system based on brain patterns The invention includes a control system and a method for access control of an application system, with electrically measurable data acquired as the result of a biometric reaction of a user, the biometric reaction triggered by stimulatory information presented to the... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127142 | Method of authenticating a user on a network A method of controlling access to electronic information is provided. The method requires the use of a portable token adapted to read and verify a user's biometric data in order to view encrypted files or data fields. If the proper biometric data is entered into the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127143 | Methods for secure enrollment of personal identity credentials into electronic devices A method and system for securely enrolling personal identity credentials into personal identification devices. The system of the invention comprises the manufacturer of the device and an enrollment authority. The manufacturer is responsible for recording serial numb... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122260 | Shaping classification boundaries in template protection systems The invention relates to a method of authentication of a physical object and an apparatus applying said method. The method uses a helper data (W1) and a control value (V1) associated with a reference object to generate a first property set (C1) ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122259 | Systems and algorithms for stateless biometric recognition A system and algorithms to authenticate a person where a system only has some standard personal text data about the person, and cannot have a real biometric template obtained using an enrollment procedure. The authentication allows access to restricted resources by ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117460 | Time-domain reflectometry used to provide biometric authentication An electronic device includes one or more Time-Domain Reflectometor (TDR) channels and a security block embedded at a silicon or software level to measure human electrical impedance and characteristics for biometric identification and provide biometric authenticatio... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112632 | Security devices, systems and computer program products A security device having a knowledge input module obtaining knowledge data and a user data storage module storing user-specific data. A processor performs at least part of a user authorization process in response to the knowledge data and the user-specific data. An ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103881 | System, method and apparatus for electronic ticketing The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for securely granting access to an event. For example, in one embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, such as an electronic card, ticket or information carrier, contains biometric data about a ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099604 | Communication system, method for transferring information, and information-communication device A first information-communication device generates first biometric pattern used for comparison based on user biometric information retrieved by a biometric sensor, and sends the generated first biometric pattern to a second biometric information-communication device... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086867 | Secure identity and privilege system A process for generating a unique, secure and printable identity document, for authenticating the use of the document, and for granting privileges based on the document, includes generating an identity certificate for an individual. This certificate incorporates a p... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086868 | Data communication method and system Public-key cryptography is realized by means of PKI in which biometrics data, in which biological information of users is converted to numerical values, are used to authenticate users that transmit and receive data, and based on the biometrics data, identical secret... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082448 | System and method for user authentication using non-language words A system and method for user authentication include a user instructing component and a voice authentication component. The user instructing component generates an instruction for authenticating a voice of a user. The instruction includes a first instruction to recit... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078883 | Personal authentication apparatus and personal authentication method According to the present invention, first, the first biometric information “a” is divided equally and biometric information “a” and biometric information “a′” are generated, the second biometric information “b” is divided equally and biometric info... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078885 | Identity authentication and secured access systems, components, and methods Security tokens contain data that is each uniquely encrypted based on a unique biometric identifier of an authorized user of that token. Decoders receive the token and the user's biometric identifier, convert the biometric identifier to a biometric key, and apply th... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078884 | Method of and system for selecting and presenting content based on user identification Methods of and systems for selecting and presenting content based on user identification are provided. A user-interface method of selecting and presenting content items in which the presentation is ordered at least in part based on inferring which user of a collecti... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065528 | Authentication device, authentication method, authentication program and computer readable recording medium An authentication device having high resistance to spoofing is provided. A portable telephone includes a camera, which is switched between a close up mode enabling photographing at close up and a normal photography mode, for imaging the person to be authenticated; a... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065529 | Methods for using a biometric parameter in the identification of persons Brain waves are used as a biometric parameter to provide for authentication and identification of personnel. The brain waves are sampled using EEG equipment and are processed using phase-space distribution functions to compare digital signature data from enrollment ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060753 | Biometric platform radio identification anti-theft system Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide for administering a protected item. An anti-theft key encoded with a radio frequency identification of the user and biometric data of the user is provided. The anti-theft key... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060752 | Twisted signature Sampling and transforming (“twisting”) of biometric data are performed at client based on information known at client only. Twisting includes shuffling the arrays of biometric data and may include changing of values in these arrays. Twisted biometric data are su... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055906 | Methods for secure restoration of personal identity credentials into electronic devices A method and system for securely enrolling personal identity credentials into personal identification devices. The system of the invention comprises the manufacturer of the device and an enrollment authority. The manufacturer is responsible for recording serial numb... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046590 | System and method for protection of creative works The inventive method for protection of creative works is accomplished by creating a creative work, securing the creative work using biometric information of an author of the creative work, and restricting an access to the creative work to the author and select users... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046589 | Renewable and private biometrics The present invention relates to a method of authenticating an individual (321) at an authenticating device (311) and an authenticating system for authenticating an individual. A basic idea of the present invention is to store, at a device or a system ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046588 | Audit trail in a programmable safety instrumented system via biometric signature(s) System(s) and method(s) that facilitate utilizing biometric sensors (e.g., fingerprint, hand scan, voice recognition . . . ) in manufacturing systems in order to maintain accurate safety audit trails. A safety audit system, utilizing a biometric sensing device, faci... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041956 | Method and system for biometric authentication A method of authentication is provided that includes capturing biometric data for a desired biometric type from an individual, determining an algorithm for converting the biometric data into authentication words, converting the captured biometric data into authentic... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037316 | Method and system for user information verification A system and method for authenticating users based on personal information. The personal information may include age-related data where the users are interested in receiving age-restricted content. The personal information may include an address and a permission req... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037315 | Integrated circuit card An IC card includes a capacitance type fingerprint sensor, a display device, and a control unit. The display device displays an encrypted image that is readable by an external device. The control unit controls the capacitance type fingerprint sensor and the display ... | 10/11/2011 |
