Identity Token Based Security System and Method

摘要

An identity token based access control system and method is disclosed. A distributed security system that manages access to business and/or governmental entities creates an identity credential for a user and obtains or generates a globally unique identity token for the user, and loads the identity credential and the identity token onto a user device. The user then presents the user device including the identity credential and the identity token to an access control system (ACS) of the security system of the business entity that generated the identity token to obtain access to its security system, or to an ACS of a security system of one or more third party business entities that support the use of identity tokens to obtain access to the security systems of the third party business entities. The identity tokens are preferably random numbers or strings. The identity credentials typically include biometric information for users.

主权项

1. A distributed security system, comprising:
an access control system that controls access to an access point of a first entity based on identity credentials presented by user devices of users; a local identity issuance service of the first entity that loads the identity credentials onto user devices and globally unique identity tokens; and a token issuance service that provides the globally unique identity tokens to the local identity issuance service for the users.