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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2012
Christopher Stephen Frederick Smowton, Cambridge, GB;
Ronnie Chaiken, Redmond, WA (US);
Weidong Cui, Redmond, WA (US);
Oliver H. Foehr, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jacob Rubin Lorch, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Molnar, Seattle, WA (US);
Bryan Jeffrey Parno, Seattle, WA (US);
Stefan Saroiu, Redmond, CA (US);
Alastair Wolman, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Stephen Frederick Smowton, Cambridge, GB;
Ronnie Chaiken, Redmond, WA (US);
Weidong Cui, Redmond, WA (US);
Oliver H. Foehr, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jacob Rubin Lorch, Bellevue, WA (US);
David Molnar, Seattle, WA (US);
Bryan Jeffrey Parno, Seattle, WA (US);
Stefan Saroiu, Redmond, CA (US);
Alastair Wolman, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described is a technology by which the identity of a person (e.g., a customer in a commercial transaction) is determinable without active identification effort, via biometric data is obtained without action by the person. Machine processing of the biometric data over a set of possible persons, determined from secondary proximity sensing, is used to determine or assist in determining the identity of the person.