Patent ID: 11871239
Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
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.