| 摘要 |
A privacy-oriented, personally-controlled biometric timekeeping apparatus, method, and system are disclosed. A conventional biometric time clock enrolls users at a centralized device. In my invention, biometric data never leaves the user's personal device that is carried by each employee. Upon hiring, workers are assigned hand-held, portable, mobile biometric devices to carry on their person. In daily use, the user performs biometric self-authentication, after which the personally-carried handheld apparatus sends a successful biometric authentication signal to the timekeeping device which is usually a centrally-located timekeeping system. The device is mobile, so workers can biometrically punch-in or punch-out via personal laptop to the timekeeping system; individually access timekeeping systems installed at worksites; or communicate from vehicles to the timekeeping system. Improved privacy is facilitated, despite the use of biometrics. Buddy-punching (timekeeping fraud, when workers punch-in absent buddies) is eliminated with biometric authentication—even though the biometric never leaves the handheld device. |
