Tokenless biometric ATM access system
US5764789A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 27, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jun 9, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 27, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2463/102
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The system provides system and method for having a customer register with a computer system a PIN, one or more registration biometric samples, and one or more of the customer's financial accounts. During an initiation step, the customer initiates an account access at an ATM or a PC or any other financial access device, by entering the customer's personal authentication information comprising a PIN and at least one bid biometric sample. No portable man-made memory devices such as smartcards or swipe cards are used in this step. In a transmission step, an account access request message comprising the personal authentication information of the customer and other data are forwarded from the ATM to the computer system. After the computer system receives the personal authentication information in the account access request message, the personal authentication information is compared with the registration biometric samples to produce either a successful or failed identification of the customer in a customer identification step. Should such identification be successful, a financial account number of the customer is retrieved in a retrieval step. Finally, the customer is allowed to access t…
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