Tokenless biometric electronic transactions using an audio signature to identify the transaction processor

US6397198B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Indivos Corporation · US

Inventors

• Ned Hoffman · Sebastopol, US
• David Ferrin Pare, Jr. · Berkeley, US
• Jonathan Alexander Lee · Berkeley, US
• Philip Dean Lapsley · Oakland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 20, 1999
• Grant date: May 28, 2002
• Expiry date: Jul 20, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2463/102
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention discloses a tokenless biometric identification computer system, comprising at least a database containing registered biometric samples of users. A comparator compares a bid biometric sample of a user to at least one registered biometric sample, the bid biometric sample obtained directly from the user during an identification process for conducting an electronic transaction by the user. A stored audio signature is associated with a transaction processor entity, which the transaction processor entity is responsible for conducting the electronic transaction. A sound generator generates an analog or digital signal from the stored audio signature, and a transducer converts the analog or digital signal to a play back audio signature. This invention generates a play back audio signature from the stored audio signature that is associated with the transaction processor entity and the play back audio signature is played back to the user to identify the transaction processor entity that conducted the electronic transaction, wherein no man made personal devices such as credit cards, identity cards or the like is used during the identification process for conducting the electronic…