Deferred authentication methods and systems

摘要

A wearable computing device, such as a wearable credit card type device or a wearable identification type device, that provides for deferred re-authentication that a user currently in possession of the wearable computing device is indeed the authorized user. In this aspect, the wearable computing device may store authentication data input by the user when network connection is unavailable, and transmit the authentication data when the network becomes available. For increased security, location information may also be incorporated so that the re-authentication may only occur within a limited number of geographic locations.

主权项

1. A method for deferred authentication of a user of a wearable device, comprising:
receiving biometric authentication data identifying a user at a first time, wherein a communication connection with an authentication server is unavailable at the first time; comparing the biometric authentication data to data stored on the wearable device; storing, in a memory of the wearable device, an indication of whether the biometric authentication data corresponds to the data stored on the wearable device; storing an association between the biometric authentication data and an indication of the first time in the memory of the wearable device; determining, at a second time after the first time, that the communication connection with the authentication server is available; and transmitting, in response to determining the communication connection is available, the stored indication of whether the biometric authentication data corresponds to the data stored on the wearable device and the indication of the first time to the authentication server.