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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ashwath Harthattu, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven Douglas Laver, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/0861 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is a mobile device to provide continuous and discrete user authentication. The mobile device may include: a contextual sensor; a soft biometric sensor; and a processor. The processor may be configured to: implement a background authentication process in a continuous manner based upon a soft biometric input from the soft biometric sensor and a contextual input from the contextual sensor; determine an anomaly event; and based upon the anomaly event, request a discrete authentication input from the user.