Community biometric authentication on a smartphone

摘要

Methods and systems are presented for performing biometric authentication of a plurality of users on a user device (e.g., smartphone). In some embodiments, a user may specify in biometric settings certain biometric authentication applications to be used with a group biometric authentication system. A user may additionally specify in biometric settings other users to add to a biometric authentication group. A user may perform functions or access data in biometric authentication-enabled applications (e.g., a financial application) that require the biometric authentication of one or more other users by transmitting a request to the user device of the one or more other users for the required biometric data (e.g., a fingerprint scan).

主权项

1. A method for automatically performing group biometric authentication on a user device, the method comprising:
defining a biometric authentication group, wherein the biometric authentication group includes a plurality of users and a plurality of applications, and wherein membership of one or more of the plurality of users in the biometric authentication group is editable by a first user; establishing one or more conditions between two or more users for one or more applications of the biometric authentication group, wherein the one or more conditions specify when biometric authentication is required from each of the users of the biometric authentication group with respect to the one or more applications, and what type of biometric authentication will be used; receiving a first user input via a first user interface of the first user device, wherein the received first user input includes selecting a task for performance within an application of the first user device, wherein the application of the first user device is an application subject to the biometric authentication group, and wherein performing the task requires biometric authentication; receiving a first biometric authentication data from the first user at a biometric sensor of the first user device; executing instructions stored in memory, wherein the execution of the instructions by the processor determines that the selected task from the first user associated with the application subject to the biometric authentication group requires second biometric authentication data from one or more second users, and wherein the determination is based on the established one or more conditions for the application within the biometric authentication group; transmitting a request over a network for the second biometric authentication data to user devices associated with the second user; receiving the second biometric authentication data transmitted over the network by the second user devices, wherein the first biometric authentication data and the second biometric authentication data are provided to the application for group biometric authentication; and executing the selected task within the application of the first user device, wherein the selected task is allowed to be executed based on the received first biometric authentication data, the received second biometric authentication data, and the one or more established conditions of the biometric authentication group.