Patent ID: 11866007
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 13:
14. One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media storing instructions for verifying an identity of a user of a vehicle that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
determine user biometric template data;
provide the user biometric template data to a blockchain database for decentralized storage in one or more blocks of the blockchain database, wherein the user biometric template data is stored in the one or more blocks according to one or more blockchain security requirements dictated by a rider authentication server, further wherein the user biometric template data is not stored in the rider authentication server;
receive user authentication data from a vehicle sensor of the vehicle;
generate a transaction token comprising an authentication ID associated with the user received from the rider authentication server via the blockchain database and the user authentication data;
transmit the transaction token to the rider authentication server via the blockchain database that causes the rider authentication server to perform a verification of the transaction token by at least fetching the user biometric template data from the one or more blocks, wherein the rider authentication server comprises a central node of the blockchain database; and
receive a message indicating one or more of:
a request for additional user authentication data; or
an indication that an identity of the user has been verified based on the user authentication data.