IDENTITY VERIFICATION USING LOCATION OVER TIME INFORMATION

摘要

The identity of a user of a mobile device (300) is verified (220) by the mobile device accessing the location of the mobile device over recent time to obtain a current route, comparing (212) a feature of the current route to characteristic features of previous routes stored on the mobile device. The user is verified if the feature of the current route matches a characteristic feature of previous routes. The previous routes may be obtained by tracking the location of the mobile device over time to obtain a number of routes, identifying characteristic features of the routes, and storing the characteristic features of the routes.