Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Albert William Wegener

Varadarajan Gopalakrishnan

Leo Benedict Baldwin

Arnaud Marie Froment

Jacob Howard Fenton

Described are techniques and systems for providing authentication credentials associated with a user. The user is authenticated using one or more techniques, such as multi-factor authentication using one or more biometric characteristics, biomedical data, passwords, and so forth, to generate authentication data. The authentication data may be used in conjunction with information about a wearable device ('wearable'), such as a wristband. Authentication may be confirmed upon an indication that the wearable has not been removed, tampered with, and so forth. In some implementations the wearable device may store and distribute the authentication credentials to requesting devices so long as the wearable has not been removed, tampered with, and so forth.

Authentication with wearable device

A wearable computing device, such as a wearable credit card type device or a wearable identification type device, that provides for location based authentication to verify that a user currently in possession of the wearable computing device is indeed the authorized user. In this aspect, the wearable computing device may detect wireless network signals in range of the wearable computing device, and transmit authentication data and the detected wireless network signals to an authentication service. The wearable computing device may then be authenticated when the authentication data corresponds to the user and the detected wireless network signals correspond to a pre-authorized location for authentication.

Location based authentication methods and systems

A wearable computing device, such as a wearable credit card type device or a wearable identification type device, that provides for deferred re-authentication that a user currently in possession of the wearable computing device is indeed the authorized user. In this aspect, the wearable computing device may store authentication data input by the user when network connection is unavailable, and transmit the authentication data when the network becomes available. For increased security, location information may also be incorporated so that the re-authentication may only occur within a limited number of geographic locations.

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