Patent ID: 9355234
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of authentication, comprising: obtaining, by processing circuitry, a set of suitability factors from a user device of a user; performing, based on the set of suitability factors and by the processing circuitry, a score-based selection operation which selects a set of suitable biometric methods to apply during authentication from available biometric methods which are available to the processing circuitry for use in authentication; and after the set of suitable biometric methods is selected, applying, by the processing circuitry, the set of suitable biometric methods during an authentication operation to determine whether the user is authentic; wherein performing the score-based selection operation includes: obtaining a set of sensor measurements from a set of biometric sensors of the user device, and selecting a particular biometric method to apply during a subsequently performed biometric authentication operation based on the set of sensor measurements from the set of biometric sensors; and wherein selecting the particular biometric method to apply includes: for the biometric methods which are available to the processing circuitry, (i) generating numerical suitability scores, each suitability score being a numerical measure of effectiveness of a respective biometric method, and (ii) selecting the particular biometric method from the biometric methods which are available to the processing circuitry based on the numerical suitability scores, the particular biometric method being used during the subsequently performed biometric authentication operation.