IP Library Granted Patent US 11,871,239
Granted Patent B2
US 11,871,239 · App. 17/945,513 · Granted Jan 9, 2024

Terminal device, personal authentication system and personal authentication method

Inventor: Kenichi Shimada (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
H04W12/63G06F21/43G06F21/44H04L63/0853H04L63/0876H04W4/38H04W4/60H04W12/06H04W12/37H04W64/00G06Q20/3821H04W8/08
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Patent No.
US 11,871,239
App. No.
17/945,513
Granted
Jan 9, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A technology which is highly safe and furthermore highly convenient in personal authentications via a mobile terminal is provided. A terminal device 200 of the present invention includes: a position determining section 271 that determines a position of the terminal device 200 at predetermined time intervals, and accumulates the position as position information; a movement history generating section 272 that generates a movement history by using the position information accumulated in a predetermined period, and stores the movement history as movement history information; a registration processing section 276 that transmits, for registration, the movement history information to a personal authentication apparatus; and an authentication requesting section 279 that makes an authentication request to the personal authentication apparatus 310 by using the movement history information stored after the transmission by the registration processing section 276 to the personal authentication apparatus 310.

Claims (54)

1. An authentication method executed by a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

generating, by a controller, movement history information based on position information of the mobile terminal;

transmitting, via first wireless communication circuitry to an authentication server, a registration request which is including the movement history information and terminal identification information;

storing the movement history information into a storage; and

transmitting, via second wireless communication circuitry to the authentication server, an authentication request which is including the stored movement history information and the terminal identification information;

wherein the method further comprises:

collecting, via a sensor, feature information indicating a feature of a user of the mobile terminal;

comparing the collected feature information with reference feature information which has been collected in advance via the sensor and is also indicating the feature of the user of the mobile terminal, and

outputting a comparison result; and

obtaining, via a GPS sensor and/or the first wireless communication circuitry, the position information while the comparison result is indicating that the feature information and the reference feature information match each other.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

transmitting new registration request, which is including new movement history information and the terminal identification information, after a successful authentication in response to the authentication request.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

acquiring third party position information as reference information; and

transmitting the authentication request including the reference information.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the third party position information is relating to a base station of mobile network to which the mobile terminal connects.

5. The method according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first wireless communication circuitry is used for Wi-Fi communication or mobile network communication, and

wherein the second wireless communication circuitry is used for Bluetooth communication or near field communication.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sensor is an acceleration sensor that senses an acceleration of the mobile terminal.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sensor is a pulse wave sensor that senses pulse waves of the user.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the mobile terminal is wearable terminal.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

downloading, by the first wireless communication circuitry, a plurality of operating programs from a distribution server.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

transmitting, by the second wireless communication circuitry, an electronic payment request to a payment server.

11. An authentication method executed by a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

generating, by a controller, movement history information based on position information of the mobile terminal;

transmitting, via first wireless communication circuitry to an authentication server, a registration request which is including the movement history information and terminal identification information;

storing the movement history information into a storage; and

transmitting, via second wireless communication circuitry to the authentication server, an authentication request which is including the stored movement history information and the terminal identification information;

wherein the method further comprises:

collecting, via a sensor, feature information indicating a feature of a user of the mobile terminal;

comparing the collected feature information with reference feature information which has been collected in advance via the sensor and is also indicating the feature of the user of the mobile terminal, and

outputting a comparison result; and

while the comparison result is indicating that the feature information and the reference feature information match each other,

obtaining, via a GPS sensor and/or the first wireless communication circuitry, the position information; and

generating the movement history information based on the position information.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises:

transmitting new registration request, which is including new movement history information and the terminal identification information, after a successful authentication in response to the authentication request.

13. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises:

acquiring third party position information as reference information; and

transmitting the authentication request including the reference information.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the third party position information is relating to a base station of mobile network to which the mobile terminal connects.

15. The method according to claim 11 ,

wherein the first wireless communication circuitry is used for Wi-Fi communication or mobile network communication, and

wherein the second wireless communication circuitry is used for Bluetooth communication or near field communication.

16. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the sensor is an acceleration sensor that senses an acceleration of the mobile terminal.

17. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the sensor is a pulse wave sensor that senses pulse waves of the user.

18. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the mobile terminal is wearable terminal.

19. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises:

downloading, by the first wireless communication circuitry, a plurality of operating programs from a distribution server.

20. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the method further comprises:

transmitting, by the second wireless communication circuitry, an electronic payment request to a payment server.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-244152 · Dec 20, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16769610
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